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Includes an online version of the book "Access by Design: A Guide to Universal Usability for Web Designers" by Sarah Horton, along with links to other useful resources.
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A universal design approach to web usability
The Universal Usability site houses an unabridged, online version of Access by Design: A Guide to Universal Usability for Web Designers , by Sarah Horton, published in 2005 by New Riders Press. You’ll find the complete text and illustrations from
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A list of best practices intended to improve the quality of on-line services.
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Opquast est un ensemble de bonnes pratiques pour la qualité des services en ligne
Rechercher une bonne pratique
Vérifier votre site et stocker les résultats
Rechercher un projet dans l'annuaire
Gérer la qualité et l'accessibilité de vos services en ligne, abonnez-vous
est un service édité par la société
Les partenaires commerciaux ont choisi l'offre d'un accord de
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Spool uncovers the lessons his research has taught him about how best to design a site so that users don't end up thwarted
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Are your users lost on the information highway?
Jared Spool Presents Hard Evidence
Usability expert Jared Spool watches web users very carefully. What he finds as he tracks users' every move and listens to every disgruntled word is that people seek information. Our package on Spool uncovers the lessons his research has taught him -- and us --
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Help users find the documents they're looking for by incorporating a 'thesaurus-like' hierarchy for your site.
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Peter lays out the steps you can take to building a thesaurus by term generation and consolidation.
Building a Synonymous Search Index
Most of us are familiar with the traditional thesaurus or dictionary of synonyms.
was an invaluable tool in helping us spruce up our high school English papers with impressive, multi-syllabic words like
. Simply put, this traditional thesaurus helped us go from
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"The number one activity on the Web is information retrieval." In part of his tutorial, Spool explained his findings on graphic design and users' success.
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It's not as bad as you might think.
Kim Brown, Curt Degenhart,
In designing Web sites, you can't necessarily trust your intuition. Sometimes you have to consult your audience. Their habits can be surprising -- and informative. One surprise highlighted by Jared Spool, usability expert and founder of
, was this: graphic design doesn't
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The reason why so many people lose their way on the Web, according to usability expert Jared Spool, is because they lose the scent of the information they are looking for. Jared shares his thoughts and perspectives on the Web, usability, and the user's quest for information.
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Helping users find their way by making your site
Call it the Year of the User. As we near the halfway mark for 1998, it's obvious that a shift has occurred in the way designers and Web authors generally are thinking about Web design. We understand the browser-safe palette (thanks in large part to Lynda Weinman and her book, <designing web
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Advice for determining a level of granularity in breaking up documents for online viewing.
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Is chunking an article good for the user? Peter examines the concept of virtual documents and their effect on both the user and the author, and ways to make the content usable for everyone.
As we enter 1999, I have a warning for information architects around the world. Beware the virtual document! It may look harmless. It certainly looks helpful. It will lure you with a siren's song of reusable content
components that enhance flexibility and improve efficiency. And then, if you're not
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Discussion on the inevitable collapse of Yahoo directory due to its size and complexity. He Predicts mini-yahoo sites within corporate intranets.
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It seems like mini-Yahoo!'s are popping up everywhere, but is this really good for the Web? Lou shares his perspective on the Yahoo!-ization of the Web.
Yahoo! is Dead. Long Live Yahoo!
An obligatory Yahoo! rant
It's not just because it has a goofy name, or the cutesy exclamation point for that matter. It's not because the stock keeps going
. And no, it's not because I refused to invest in it when I could actually afford to purchase a share.
I'm
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When it comes to the usability factor of tables of contents, is less really more?
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When it comes to the usability factor of tables of contents...is less really more? Find out what two Argus Associates' associates discovered when they conducted an impromptu usability study of TOC's. Also: More on bottom-up architecture.
Argus consultants, Steve Toub (an occasional contributor to Web Architect ) and Chris
Farnum, recently conducted a small usability study on the design of tables of contents. Besides wanting to increase their experience with usability testing, they were trying to get a sense of what is the best way
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Ian Lloyd gives strategies for building custom 404 error pages that enhance usability.
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Oops. Something went wrong. You’re not sure what — was it you? Was it the website? What do you do now?
Welcome to the world of the Error 404 page. You’ve requested a page — either
by typing a URL directly into the address bar or clicking on an out-of-date link and
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