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Cross referencing within ageing recommendations
[Editor's DRAFT - 22 July 2008]

 Introduction

The table below is an attempt to see to what extent the respective authors of these sets of ‘senior friendly’ recommendations were considering WCAG 1.0 as many of their recommendation parallel WCAG, and also to see to what extent hey had built on the work of previous authors.

These seven sets of recommendations or checklists have been analysed as they provided broad, and often extensive, recommendations for making Web sites ‘senior friendly’. As discussed in the literature review, they are either based on extensive research, considerable user observation, or both. Many other investigations have been reported in the literature review, however most of them either reported difficulties experienced by older users, or investigated and made recommendations for specific narrow aspects of web design/development issues, or addressed specific impairments experienced by older users.

Key to symbol used in the tables

Key to symbol use in the table:

• "+"  means the author referenced the other sets of recommendations
• "-"  means the author did not cover referenced the other sets of recommendations

Notes reflect qualifications about the author’s references or approach.

Table of cross-reference indications

	Holt 2000	Age Light 2001	NIH / NLM 2002	Coyne & Nielsen 2002	AARP 2004	Webcredible 2005	Zaphiris & Kurniawan 2004/06
WAI or WCAG 1.0	-	+	-	-	-	-	+
Holt 2000	NA	-	+	-	-	-	-
Age Light	NA	NA	-	-	-	-	+
NIH / NLM	NA	NA	NA	-	+	-	+
Coyne & Nielsen	NA	NA	NA	NA	+	-	+
AARP	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	-	-
Webcredible	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	-
Notes:			WAI mentioned in background reports	Limited Refs - based solely on user testing observations	Extensive references in background report  - W3C got minor mention	No Refs - based solely on user testing observations	Extensive references

 

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