Usability guidelines for academic websites

Draft version 0.6

We would like to know whether you find these draft guidelines useful. Your feedback will help us finalise the guidelines:

A checklist of 112 guidelines that are most relevant to academic web sites.
A subset of 57 guidelines aimed at people producing online courses .
Both these lists cross-reference the comprehensive set of 187 guidelines produced for the American government by a panel of experts. You may want to download the pdf version for reference.
Additional guidance on digital libraries, portals and personalisation.
We recommend taking a user-centred approach to design, for example as described in the SAP Quick Guide to Creating Information-Oriented Web Sites.

These guidelines have been produced as part of the HCI Design Foundation Study for JISC.