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IA Teachers: Take the survey

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

The Information Architecture Institute is currently doing some research. Take the survey. More . . .

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I Hate Books at KnowIT. Miraz explains why books are obsolete and should be replaced with something better.
I provided several links in my post yesterday about WCAG 2. However, the information on this topic is vast. Here are two more.
WCAG 2 and mobileOK Basic Tests specs are proposed recommendations report at WaSP.
It’s possible that WCAG [...]

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What’s your position on pixels, ems and percentages?

Monday, June 30, 2008

What do you see as the advantages and disadvantages of the various measures—pixels, ems, percentage—used on the web? Do you have a favorite that you fall back on using most of the time? If so, why?

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A Senior PC?

Saturday, May 3, 2008

Who is a senior? Someone over 65? Boomers are between 44 and 62. Ronni Bennett at Time Goes By defines elders as anyone over age 50. Does being of a certain age mean that you require special accomodations in the form of a “Senior PC” or an extra simple cell phone or an adapted elderbrowser?
Microsoft [...]

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Research report on best practices

Sunday, December 2, 2001

User Interface Engineering — UIE Reports: Getting Them to What They Want. “In its report, “Getting Them to What They Want,” UIE says it drew on six years of research and hundreds of hours of user observations to discern the eight best practices for getting users to the content they seek,” according to PCWorld’s [...]

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