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I’m a fan of the Jakob Nielsen’s web usability reports - he tends to reveal useful insights and guidance for web design, based not on opinion but on research and scientific studies.

Now he’s just made available for free a 148-page pdf report for which he normally charges $124. Good deal, you can’t go wrong with free. Check out Beyond ALT Text: Making the Web Easy to Use for Users With Disabilities (75 Best Practices for Design of Websites and Intranets, Based on Usability Studies with People Who Use Assistive Technology ).

When you download the pdf, be sure to take note of this best practice– he doesn’t require you to register, or provide an email, or provide a credit card number, or any other sleazy ruse which always tends to result in tons of unwanted cold calls. Good deal, I hate when whitepaper and pdf offers make you run a gauntlet. I have enough people cold-calling me every day, I don’t need more.

I downloaded the pdf; haven’t read it yet, but plan to do it on a flight after the holidays.