jarmin.com Accessibility Guide - Resources

Usability

A List Apart: Usability Articles
Designing for Usability on a Shoestring (tips on where to starts with usability, mentions iterative design and evaluation methods)
Criteria for optimal web design (designing for usability) by Michael Bernard, Software Usability Research Lab (excellent all-round guide).
Designing successful websites: put usability first; practice simplicity by John Ashenhurst, Rough Note Magazine, May 2001
Evolt.org : IA/Usability : The User's Charter (Feb 2001)
Trace: Designing More Usable Web Sites
The Usable Web (Tips and techniques for building reader-friendly Web pages)
Webreview: Usability Matters (March 2000)
Webreview: Users Matter: Meeting Site Visitor Needs (May 2000)
Words, Words, Words (usability of text content)
useit.com. Jakob Nielsen's Website (usability guru)
Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox, May 30, 1999: The Top Ten New Mistakes of Web Design
Usability News: Finding Information on the Web: Does the Amount of Whitespace Really Matter?
What is the Best Layout for Multiple-Column Web Pages? (fluid or fixed layout)

Conducting International Usability by Peter Merholz, March 12, 2003.
Liga 1 Weblog (Localization. Internationalisation. Globalisation. Accessibility)
Secrets of successful web site globalization

Jacob Nielsen: First Rule of Usability? Don't Listen to Users (What he means is, don't listen to what users say, watch what they do.)
Super Easy Usability Testing
WebReference: Why You Need to Test Your Web Site with Real Users (Jan 2000)
Web Developer's Virtual Library: Usability Testing in Practice , April 15, 2002
Measuring User Experience, by Pamela and Steve Ellis, Webtechniques, February 2001.

lucdesk Usability Weblog
WebWord Usability Weblog
Usability News - A newsletter of the Software Usability Research Laboratory, Wichita State University. (A collection of useful articles, some of which are listed above.)

Don't Make Me Think! A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability by Steve Krug, Roger Black. Que, October 2000.
- Webword Interview with Krug
- Read a chapter online: Chapter 2: How we really use the Web.
The Art & Science of Web Design by Jeff Veen, New Riders, 2001
- Excerpt at Webreference: Chapter One: Foundations
- Webword Interview with Veen
Designing Web Usability : The Practice of Simplicity by Jakob Nielsen, New Riders Publishing, December 1999.

Usable Web (a collection of links about information architecture, human factors, user interface issues, and usable design)
Website Tips for Designers