Web usability guidelines
userfocus.co.uk
userfocus.co.uk
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On the menu:
"Navigation and IA"
But...
Under "Writing and content quality":
"Acronyms and abbreviations are defined when first used."
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They say "Pages are free of 'scroll stoppers' (headings or page elements that create the illusion that users have reached the top or bottom of a page when they have not)." But the site has THREE footers, any one of which could be the end of the page.
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They say "Things that are clickable (like buttons) are obviously pressable." But the text "Usability Training" in the third footer is inexplicably clickable.
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One that counts as an epic fail... they believe there is such a thing as a "standard browser width window."
As for scroll stoppers...it is very clear to me that the page's main content has ended when I reach even the "first" footer. It hardly seems like a principle violation.
"Usability Training" might be a subtlety in the footer, but it is also one of the major headings (which are obviously buttons).
And while I'd agree that browser widths shouldn't be assumed, their advice in #29 is with respect to reading, and there is definitely research to suggest that there is a maximum useful width for a column of text, ~60-70 characters. [See for instance, "Readability of Print" (H. Spencer, 1968).]
I guess they don't take their own advice :)
and watch as they break every single one of these guidelines. I use aa.com as an example of crappy usability so often that my definition of "good web development" is becoming "the opposite of whatever aa.com is doing".