Just Ask: integrating accessibility throughout design
Focusing on User Centered Design (UCD) methodology with the angle of getting users of different abilities involved into the design process – this free online book is not another W3C document with code references and guidelines. The author Shawn Lawton Henry from W3C wrote this self-published book to highlight the overall design process, including users early on, working with personae, evaluation and testing and more.
To quote the book review from accessify.com:
This is not a book about accessibility techniques, be that HTML, CSS or scripting advice. And despite working for the W3C, Shawn has not created another W3C-stlye document. This book will find most use, I think, with people who already do testing of some nature but to whom accessibility is still a black art. It will also appeal to people running small business – perhaps developers who know their HTML/CSS trade inside and out but want to be able to expand their horizons and go beyond simply saying “we create accessibile web sites” and really mean it – and I would also recommend that some of the accessibility gurus take a leaf through this and not assume that they know it already. The fact that by buying the book you’ll be helping the author directly makes it oh so much sweeter.