Older Wiser Wired: Resources

Designing Web Sites for Older Adults: Expert Review of 50 Web Sites
This research applies heuristics through a new model of older adult use of the Web. The model is applied to 50 web sites that are likely to be used by an older adult in the normal course of their day and reveals ways that sites could do better to increase their usability for everyone.

Designing Web Sites for Older Adults: A Review of Recent Literature
This annotated literature review is geared towards those designing web sites for older adults. It concentrates on research from the disciplines of interaction and navigation, information architecture, presentation or visual design, and information design.

Designing Web Sites for Older Adults: Heuristics
These heuristics are extracted from our review of the recent relevant research on older adults and Web site design. Each heuristic also has a list of questions that we used to focus our observations in our expert review of 50 web sites.

Doing the Math: Older Adults Online
How many older adults are online? It depends on who you ask. But recent estimates suggest that over 40 million adults over 50 access the Internet.

Fidelity Investments' Eight Lessons Learned
Fidelity shares results from studies focused on improving the usability of web sites for older adults. This article briefly describes some of this work, which has yielded eight lessons learned and, for each, the design implications for designing for older adults on the Web.

Older Adults Online: Useful Resources
You can review resources from AARP, find links to other studies and demographic information, links to useful usability references, or links to related organizations.

STUDY: Wired Generations
AARP has released Wired Generations, a report that describes how adult children are helping their parents and older relatives with computers and technology and making a positive difference in their lives.

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