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INTERACT'99 Workshop : Making Designers Aware of Existing Guidelinesfor Accessibility Position paper for the IFIP TC.13 INTERACT'99 Workshop: Making Designers Aware of Existing Guidelinesfor Accessibility (31 August 1999) Discount accessibility engineering: Haven't we met before? Fredrik Winberg, Centre for User Oriented IT-design CID, NADA Royal Institute of Technology S-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden e-mail: fredrikw@nada.kth.se The situation today with the existing guidelines for making new technology and information accessible (for example World Wide Web Consortium, 1999) reminds much about the state of HCI or usability engineering in the late 1980. Jacob Nielsen speaks about something he calls "the intimidation barrier" (Nielsen, 1994a, 1994b). This barrier makes most people refrain from using any usability method since most methods require a lot of knowledge, are expensive, and are too complex. Nielsen developed a method, or a set of techniques, that he called discount usability engineering (Nielsen 1994a, 1994b). The basis of this method could be stated as "don't aim at perfection, rather the best one can do" or "it's better to do a little than not doing anything at all". The foundation of this method is the four techniques User and task observation, Scenarios, Simplified thinking aloud, and Heuristic evaluation. User

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Winberg, Fredrik
ACM SIGCAPH Computers and the Physically Handicapped , Volume (70)
Association for Computing Machinery – Jul 1, 2001

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