When designing web pages for instructional pages, keep in mind style and usability issues for the general student population as well as students with special learning needs. The following links provide information about general style issues and guidelines for making web pages accessible to students with disabilities.
UCLA Graphic Identity. This site explains how you can use the UCLA logo and recommends colors and fonts for UCLA websites and documents. UCLA users can download the logo in various sizes and colors. There is also a style guide that explains how to use certain terms and acronyms, i.e. e-mail or email, login or logon.
UCLA's Disabilities and Computing Program Web Accessibility Guidelines. This site has a number of useful links about what "accessible" means. Patrick Burke of DCP is willing to evaluate web sites for accessibility.
WAI Guidelines and Techniques. The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) is sponsored by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). WAI develops guidelines widely regarded as the international standard for Web accessibility and support materials to help understand and implement Web accessibility.
Yale Web Style Guide. An introduction to issues of style and presentation for web-based writing. It covers the presentation of information, the selection and use of fonts, and the correct uses of colors and background images.
Jakob Nielson's Usable Information Technology. Jakob Nielson quite literally wrote the book on designing web sites for usability; his site is a good source of information, and offers practical advice with examples. You might want to pay particular attention to his bi-weekly Alert Box columns on usability issues.
Contributed by mg. Last updated August 10, 2005 by mg.