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

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Introduction and Background

• Forewords (3 pages, 276 K)
  Tommy G. Thompson, Secretary of Health and Human Services
  Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland
• Introduction (2 pages, 40 K)
• Background and Methodology (2 pages, 48 K)
  Includes detailed Strength of Evidence scale
• How to Use the Guidelines (2 pages, 44 K)
  Includes important considerations for using the Guidelines
• Contributors (2 pages, 40 K)

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Guidelines by Chapter

• Chapter 1 – Design Process and Evaluation (6 pages, 880 K)
• Chapter 2 – Optimizing the User Experience (6 pages, 5.3 MB)
• Chapter 3 – Accessibility (4 pages, 856 K)
• Chapter 4 – Hardware and Software (3 pages, 880 K)
• Chapter 5 – The Homepage (5 pages, 4.7 MB)
• Chapter 6 – Page Layout (6 pages, 4.6 MB)
• Chapter 7 – Navigation (6 pages, 2.7 MB)
• Chapter 8 – Scrolling and Paging (3 pages, 508 K)
• Chapter 9 – Headings, Titles, and Labels (5 pages, 1.8 MB)
• Chapter 10 – Links (8 pages, 3.9 MB)
• Chapter 11 – Text Appearance (4 pages, 952 K)
• Chapter 12 – Lists (4 pages, 428 K)
• Chapter 13 – Screen-based Controls (Widgets) (10 pages, 2.1 MB)
• Chapter 14 – Graphics, Images, and Multimedia (7 pages, 972 K)
• Chapter 15 – Writing Web Content (5 pages, 2.4 MB)
• Chapter 16 – Content Organization (5 pages, 788 K)
• Chapter 17 – Search (4 pages, 380 K)

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Sources/Bibliographies

• Complete bibliography (13 pages, 144 K)

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Glossary, Indices, and Appendices

• Glossary (4 pages, 56 K)
• Content Index (7 pages, 52 K)
• Author Index (5 pages, 64 K)
• Appendices (6 pages, 60 K)
  Guidelines ranked by Relative Importance and Strength of Evidence

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