Guidelines

Case 5

Accessibility Guidelines

1. Universal language should be implemented and may consider having a translation for different languages;

2. Access by all sorts of users, they may be novice, beginner or professional;

3. Accessible to users who are visually impaired, deaf and verbally incapacitated with the implementation of different assistive technology;

4. Applications in a system must have set guidelines to help user for easy access;

5. Compatibility of applications,like applications from an OS could be used on a different type of OS and vice versa;

6. Prompting of errors would be helpful, maybe in written or verbal form;

7. Repetition of voice prompts is also a big help for users with disabilities;

8. Prompting to indicate user's identification just once would lessen the user's work load;

9. Terms or words used must be constant for the system's consistency;

10.User friendly interface for everyone to access.

Usability Guidelines

1. Coherency and orderliness of the system should be the number one concern for the system to be effective as for its use in this way, users are directed to the right usage path of the system itself;

2. he system would prompt user to any actions and changes that may occur;

3. Concisiveness for understandable communication between user and interface;

4. Provides adequate information on every action made by the user;

5. Proofreading as a helpful tool to a system that could detect and correct errors made;

6. Cohesiveness of the terms used to lessen the level of difficulty and avoid confusion;

7. Avoid long terms that are hardly remembered by the users that may cause to distractions;

8. Allow user to easily change actions that was done;

9. As much as possible, helping tools should be put in a system that user could ask for assistance and concerns;

10.Consistent shortcuts that would enable user to shorten their work.