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READ MOREFaye Bridgewrites on June 20, 2017 For the majority of you reading this, a world without technology is now unimaginable. It’s at the forefront of our personal lives, essential in our work lives and supports us – in ways we no longer notice – in our day-to-day lives. When was the last time you went […]
READ MOREThe older methods of web design have fallen by the wayside to make room for HTML5/CSS3 design. Unfortunately when you’ve become ingrained with older design techniques it can be difficult to extricate yourself from the outdated workflow. But modern usability centers around responsive design and requires more attention to detail. The following design tips […]
READ MOREAs creators of the web, we bring innovative, well-designed interfaces to life. We find satisfaction in improving our craft with each design or line of code. But this push to elevate our skills can be self-serving: Does a new CSS framework or JavaScript abstraction pattern serve our users or us as developers? If a […]
READ MOREDo you run a conference which posts recorded videos to the Internet? Are those videos captioned or posted with transcripts? Of the many mainstream conferences I’ve attended, only one had live captioning, JSConf EU; one other had sign language interpreters, Webstock 2013 (kudos to you all!). Obviously, there has to be demand for organizers to […]
READ MOREDespite their differences, usability and accessibility sometimes go hand-in-hand. The World Wide Web Consortium defines accessibility as an “equivalent user experience for people with disabilities, including people with age-related impairments”, while usability is defined as the “design of products to be effective, efficient and satisfying” for end users. Common accessibility improvements such as providing a […]
READ MOREWhile doing our website reviews, we look at sites from all over the world. Most of our clients are from the United States and Europe, but we also have clients from Australia, South Africa and even China. Websites from different countries can differ largely in their choices for color, pictures, navigation and site structure. That […]
READ MOREThis is an edited excerpt from Chapter 8 of The User Experience Team of One – A Research and Design Survival Guide, published by Rosenfeld Media. Use the discount code NETMAGUXT to get 20 per cent off your purchase Can people use this product as intended? The essence of the quick-and-dirty usability test is that […]
READ MOREWhile a decade ago it may have been okay to go brew a pot of coffee while the computer was loading, today we all expect our software and devices to be fast and responsive. The same holds true for web performance. The load speed and responsiveness of a web application play a critical role in […]
READ MOREVideo captions are important for accessibility and search engines. Edit YouTube captions to prevent bloopers, says Alastair Campbell I turned on captions for my account on YouTube a while ago when testing something, and forgot to turn them off. Then I realised that almost every YouTube video has captions, whether the owner knew about them […]
READ MOREToday, May 9th, is Global Accessibility Awareness Day #GAAD a whole day devoted to learning about web and mobile accessibility. I encourage you to take some of your time today to learn a bit more about this important topic. Accessibility is a subset of UX that aims to makes websites usable by the most people […]
READ MORELast week, Pamela Fox tweeted a question to me: @slicknet Do you know the best way to make a button that just has an icon accessible? title, aria-label, hidden text? — Pamela Fox (@pamelafox) March 26, 2013 As tends to happen on Twitter, we fruitlessly exchanged 140 character messages trying to get some resolution before […]
READ MOREGAAD 2013 argues it’s time to start thinking more about web accessibility Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) 2013, a community effort intended to get people discussing, thinking and learning about digital accessibility. Co-founder Jennison Mark Asuncion told .net the target audience of GAAD is “the design, development, usability and related communities who build, […]
READ MOREOne of the main pillars of the user-oriented design involves testing your own assumptions and design solutions. Usability testing is very important in the design process. It allows you to verify ideas, helps to reduce the costs already at the initial stage of design and allows you to explore the user expectations. These have significant […]
READ MOREWAI-ARIA, the W3C’s specification for Accessible Rich Internet Applications, provides web developers with a means of annotating page elements with the roles, properties, and states that define exactly what those elements do. The added definitions help screen readers and other assistive devices navigate through your website. We’ve looked at how you can use ARIA roles […]
READ MOREGood design? UX? Accessibility? Can we have it all? asks Sandi Wassmer An edited version of this article appeared in issue 236 of .net magazine – the world’s best-selling magazine for web designers and developers. The potential technology holds for making our world a better place is utterly mind-blowing, evinced by the social change that […]
READ MORESoupe du jour: tags. Image: clogozm/Flickr Somewhere far in the web’s primordial past it was decided that the best way to mark up a menu in HTML was to use the unordered list element: ul. The vast majority of tutorials – if not all – you’ll ever see for creating navigation menus use the familiar […]
READ MOREAccessibility is a major societal task that is constantly gaining in importance. Websites are no exception here. Even more so, online services for some people are their sole possibility of taking part in social life. Thus accessibility is a vital precondition to allow handicapped people to claim their share of the information age. HTML_CodeSniffer is […]
READ MOREIn Part 1 of this article, we have seen the usability problems encountered by users when they try to book cinema tickets for kids on a Saturday morning. The websites that were tested were all UK cinema websites: CineWorld, Empire Cinemas and Odeon Cinemas. This article shows two other tasks that were performed by users […]
READ MOREDuring a recent spot of unavoidable eavesdropping in a slow-moving queue, I overheard two ladies expressing great frustration at their less-than-positive experiences on cinema websites. This reminded me of usability testing on UK Cinema websites that we had carried out in late 2011. Back at the office, I dug up the video clips of user […]
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