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Developing sites for users with Cognitive disabilities and learning difficulties

From Juicy Studio, although the article focuses on writing for people with “Cognitive disabilities and learning difficulties”, it could just as well have been for “the typical stressed web-user”. Many of the tips has to do with making your site as accessible as possible for anyone stressed out of their wits and trying to find some important information on your site. Juicy Studio: Developing sites for users with Cognitive disabilities and learning difficulties When people think about accessibility of web content, there’s a tendency to concentrate on people with visual […]

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Free beer for usability

Interesting idea: Café testing The basic idea behind café testing is to situate yourself at a café, put up a sign to attract participants, and test the people that come to you. Because cafes appeal to a wide variety of individuals, and people at a café often have time to spare, café testing can be a great way to perform a quick litmus test in the marketplace. Sounds like work for usability testers with a taste for beer ;-) [Via Brukaropplevingar.com]

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Bad service in the US too

John Dowdell has experienced the spreading bad service of a big shop when doing his Mac shopping at CompUSA. He writes that he so far has visited the store twice – in total spending 1 hour and 15 minutes to get the wrong RAM for his iBook. These kind of shopping experiences are becoming all to common. And at shops like CompUSA (In Norway, simular shops could be Elkøp, Lefdal, Spaceworld and a bounch of other big chains). The problem is high demand, not enough people to help the customers,

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Why to not _blank

Mark Pilgrim continues on his 30 days to a more accessible weblog, today he explains why the _blank tag is evil. In all dominant browsers, using the <a target=”_blank”> tag to force a link to open in a new window breaks the Back button. The new window does not retain the browser history of the previous window, so the “Back” button is disabled. This is incredibly confusing, even for me, and I’ve been using the web for 10 years My personal reason for not using _blank tages on my weblog

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30 days to a more accessible weblog

Mark Pilgrim (dive into mark) is writing up a whole month of good tips on how to make your weblog more accessible. Its really a usability exercise – and most of what he is talking about can easily apply to all other forms of web sites too. I’ve already implemented a few of his tips. They are probably not obvious to the regular IE-browser-user but to others its hopefully of help. With weblogs most of us are already using template based systems – so taking the time to implement features

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Usability in focus at Macromedia.com

Its the week of User-centered design at the Des/Dev center over at Macromedia.com: Flash 99% Good – Written by Kevin Airgid and Stephanie Reindel. This is chapter 8 of the Flash99% Good book that has been made available both as HTML and PDF download at Macromedia.com. Chapter 8, “The Future of Flash,” covers Flash as a front end to web services, Flash and broadband, and the future of Flash usability. Ready, Set, Go: Usability Testing – Written by Elizabeth McLachlan and Leanne Waldal at Otivo.com. Goes through the process of

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Follow up: Nielsen to make “best practices” document for rich internet applications in SWF

Chris MacGregor has written a very good reply to Jakob’s latest addition to his “Flash 99% Bad” paper. You did notice that he has added text to it now, text that I am sure wasn’t added because of the job he now has gotten for Macromedia, after all – he is a serious researcher and have more integrity than that, right? Read Chris’s: The Cooler: An Open Letter to Jakob ‘MX’ Nielsen Nielsen himself weighs in on the announcement with an addendum to his Flash: 99% Bad column, but unlike

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