web usability
Usability Design Nightmare
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008Mircosoft have put ‘undo’ next to ’save’ in their new version of Office:
What were they thinking?
Heather Mills Sorted Her Website Out
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008Well, I was going to write a post today saying that now Heather’s finalised her divorce and been awarded £24.3 Million she can afford to sort her website out… but she beat me to it!
Heather’s site was criticised, and traffic was compared similarly to an obscure fishing website. I was asked to comment when […]
Why Build Accessible Websites?
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008Google are developing an Accessible search that gives precedence to websites built to web standards
Older people, who are not necessarily disabled often have some of the following problems:
arthritus - may not be able to use the mouse; keyboard shortcuts are important.
poor eyesight - large text size and good contrasting colours can help
hearing difficulties - text […]
Accessible Websites… Salford’s got the idea
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008The Government is getting serious about its commitment to accessibility, and Salford City Council are leading the way with an excellent example.
To the untrained eye, the website doesn’t seem anything out of the ordinary - it doesn’t sing, or dance. But the site is extremely easy to navigate, information is organised very well, and […]
New Labour Party Scandal Sees Vote Share Plummet!
Friday, January 25th, 2008Well perhaps that’s over stating it just a little bit but I was rather surprised to see that the labour party website doesn’t have a custom 404 page. Why is that important? Well, if someone follows a link to a page that no longer exists or follows a link that has […]
Eye Tracking For Website Useability
Tuesday, October 9th, 2007I stumbled upon a website for a company that specialises in web usability; they’ve produced a video explaining eye tracking and how you can use the results to gain an insight into how people view your site and whether they are using it as you would expect.
They kindly published this video to YouTube so I […]