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• Introduction and Background
• Guidelines by Chapter
• Sources/Bibliographies
• Glossary, Indices, and Appendices

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Introduction and Background (2006 ed.)

• Beginning of Book and Forewords (7 pages, 696 KB)
  Michael O. Leavitt, Secretary of Health and Human Services
  Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland
• Introduction (2 pages, 504 KB)
• Background and Methodology (3 pages, 528 KB)
  Includes detailed Strength of Evidence scale
• How to Use the Guidelines (3 pages, 524 KB)
  Includes important considerations for using the Guidelines
• Contributors (2 pages, 496 KB)

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Guidelines by Chapter (2006 ed.)

• Chapter 1 – Design Process and Evaluation (8 pages, 1.8 MB)
• Chapter 2 – Optimizing the User Experience (13 pages, 8.9 MB)
• Chapter 3 – Accessibility (7 pages, 2.4 MB)
• Chapter 4 – Hardware and Software (5 pages, 2.8 MB)
• Chapter 5 – The Homepage(10 pages, 11.8 MB)
• Chapter 6 – Page Layout (14 pages, 20.4 MB)
• Chapter 7 – Navigation (13 pages, 12.8 MB)
• Chapter 8 – Scrolling and Paging (5 pages, 4.4 MB)
• Chapter 9 – Headings, Titles, and Labels (9 pages, 7.7 MB)
• Chapter 10 – Links (15 pages, 16.7 MB)
• Chapter 11 – Text Appearance(11 pages, 11 MB)
• Chapter 12 – Lists (9 pages, 6.4 MB)
• Chapter 13 – Screen–Based Controls (Widgets) (22 pages, 14.7 MB)
• Chapter 14 – Graphics, Images, and Multimedia (16 pages, 16.5 MB)
• Chapter 15 – Writing Web Content (11 pages, 10.8 MB)
• Chapter 16 – Content Organization(10 pages, 9.8 MB)
• Chapter 17 – Search (9 pages, 8.9 MB)
• Chapter 18 – Usability Testing (10 pages, 1,020 KB)

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Sources/Bibliographies (2006 ed.)

• Complete Bibliography (29 pages, 2.8 MB)

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Glossary, Indices, and Appendices (2006 ed.)

• Glossary (7 pages, 904 KB)
• Content Index (14 pages, 3 MB)
• Author Index (10 pages, 2.2 MB)
• Appendices 10 pages, 1.2 MB)
  Guidelines ranked by Relative Importance and Strength of Evidence

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