About Relationship Between Accessibility and Usability
The relationship between accessibility and usability is addressed in:
- "Distinguishing Between Accessibility and Usability Issues" in Just Ask: Integrating Accessibility Throughout Design (2007)
- "Understand the Relationship Between Accessibility and Usability" from "Understanding Web Accessibility", the first chapter of Web Accessibility: Web Standards and Regulatory Compliance (2006)
Older information includes:
- An earlier version of the "Understanding Web Accessibility" (PDF) chapter from Constructing Accessible Web Sites (2002) book is also available online. See especially the first section "The Context of Accessibility: Usability".
- Another –ability: Accessibility Primer for Usability Specialists is a conference paper from the Usability Professionals' Assocation Annual Conference in 2002. It discusses the relationship between accessibility and usability in product design, presents a definition of accessibility, and introduces the concept of ‘usable accessibility.