Proper Use of ALT and TITLE Attributes
From fadtastic.
It’s important for web designers and developers to know how to write good ALT and TITLE attributes. Practices like these should be employed into each web page element as it’s created.
Alternate text is not meant to be used as a tool tip, or more specifically, to provide additional information about an image. The title attribute, on the other hand, is meant to provide additional information about an element…. Many people seem to confuse these two attributes. - Roger Johansson
As Roger notes, we should be including accessibility features when initially creating web pages rather than going back to add it later.
Zen and the Art of IA
From Boxes and Arrows, some reasons to buy this book.
New Web 2.0 interaction design can offer a lot of new suggestions for easier interactions, good use of white space and other glaring design solutions to the typically very busy space of information architecture.
But, if you practice IA well, including some new Web 2.0 techniques, you can begin to create mental space as well as white space. Designing the Obvious: A Common Sense Approach to Web Application Design
This book sits in my bathroom, just waiting to be read.