Is it really that hard to label a form field?
Web Accessibility – countries that have legal requirement, this isn’t optional. It is sad that it takes legality to force websites to comply, even with the basic (and very attainable) Level A compliance. Something such as a form label, regarded as a very low prioirty issue within the SDLC, could prevent a user using accessibility [...]
Usability Testing
Identify website strengths and weaknesses, and understand how your users experience your website. There are many benefits of usability testing, including evaluating the usability of a system, during and after design. For example a site redesign, usability test approach can provide redesign options that are both pragmatic and budget-conscious fashion.
Is your website code hurting your online marketing efforts?
Is your website code hurting your online marketing efforts? I am always on the lookout for ways to justify coding standards, what I know most developers acknowledge coding standards are a good thing, but not if it is getting in the way of what they are required to do. Maintaining standards after a site launch [...]
Some useful web accessibility tools
There are plenty of good free tools out there to help with web accessibility testing – most web accessibility rules are common sense, and will widen your audience. There are plenty of communities out there, with people with a range of disabilities. Take a read of some forums and you will see that the web [...]
Are free online WCAG tools enough?
As I am part of a venture focussed on usability and web 2.0 heuristics testing services (userexperience20), I have been checking what is currently around. Our ultimate aim to to create automated software for the purpose, but something as critical as web accessibility conformance is hard to automate, in principle. There are many sites offering [...]
Policed web – the paranoia continues …
The reaction to the the planned improvements to the web, has astounded me in the levels of resistance. Most of the adverse reactions are based around a paranoia that this is the thin end of a heavier policed internet. As the internet had already become a thriving ground for control freak corporations, insipid viral marketing, [...]
