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Category Archives: usability

Useful links: online learning, browser basics, the personal blog

Usability Issues that Impact Online Learning from Faculty Focus doesn’t mention specific tools that meet some of the standards suggested for good usability in online learning, but it does tell you some things to strive for:
Good usability for online learning materials means the site, content, and media are easy to find, use, and navigate. And [...]

Improve readability with line-height

The CSS line-height property determines the distance or spacing between the lines of text on the page. In the print world, this property is called leading.
Line-height can be applied to any text element, but it’s probably best to set it in the CSS rule for body in your stylesheet. All the textual elements on your [...]

Useful Links: Open Letter, Blog Action Day, Free Culture, Usability, HTML5

An Open Letter to Mark Shuttleworth at Geek Feminism Blog points the spotlight at another incident in this year’s round of dismissive-to-women conference remarks.
The topic for Blog Action Day this year is Climate Change. Hope all you bloggers out there will participate.
.eduGuru reviews Lawrence Lessig’s Free Culture and says,
This is not a book about education [...]

Useful Links: Snow Leopard and AT, HTML5 and RDFa, Flash accessibility, and writing tips

Snow Leopard Assistive Technology Compatibility List is a very helpful compilation of what works and what doesn’t work on Snow Leopard. From ATMac.
There are so many posts about HTML 5 and RDFa flying around these days that it’s hard to keep up with them all. But here’s one that takes a different approach, Burningbird’s Maxwell’s [...]

Useful links: usability in tweets, net neutrality, copyrights

Twitter Postings: Iterative Design from Nielsen’s alertbox takes aim at usability in tweets.
Obama’s FCC to support Net Neutrality at The Hill. So far it’s just a promise, not a behavior.
Your copyright questions answered is a handy summary of copyright basics. Written by a copyright lawyer and published at Book by Its Cover.

Reading with the Kindle Reader on an iPhone

I just finished the first book I’ve read on my iPhone. I used the free Kindle reader app. I read The Reader by Bernhard Schlink.

Eye Candy and Kicking Ass

ALA’s article In Defense of Eye Candy gets me thinking. More . . .

Designing Donation Sites that Bring in the Money

There are so many causes clamoring for money and help. Ten or twenty pleas for money can drift by like a river of tweets, and then you suddenly decide to donate. Have you ever thought about why? What turns the donate switch for you? More . . .

Accessible web applications

Christian Heilman talks about how to make web apps accessible at the panel on accessible web applications at the European Accessibility Forum in Frankfurt.
Accessible web applications
View more presentations from Christian Heilmann.

This is the presentation where he was quoted on Twitter as saying “web design is a form of autism.” Listen and find out what he [...]

Useful Links: Drive Me Crazy, Community Building, Mobile Design, Best Job

Links to top notch articles about what not to do on the web, how to build community, designing for mobiles, and finding the best job in the world.
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