Surprise! Impaired users think content is most important too. By Marisa | December 8th, 2005
In a study of a few internet users with various physical impairments, Clarity of content – using straightforward language and a clear, simple layout – was regarded by 88% as ‘very important’. Good navigation – the ability to know where you are within a site – was regarded as very important by 65%, followed by the use of meaningful and clear hyperlinks (63%).
Top five annoyances
1. Not having in-site search
2. No sitemap
3. No internal page navigation/skip to content/back to top links
4. Pop-ups
5. Inability to change font size/colour contrastTop five most useful features
1. Having in-site search
2. Having a sitemap
3. Clear, well labelled links
4. Having internal page navigation
5. Ability to personalise page view/font size
Full story here.
This entry was posted on Thursday, December 8th, 2005 at 8:04 pm and is filed under Usability. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
Leave a Reply
Hey! time for some shameless self-promotion and shout-outs to my peeps.
Well, if you've read this far, why not? This blog runs on Kick-ass Wordpress, the best blog software in the world using the Crimson Milk theme by Andrew Sutherland because Marisa is just way too lazy to make her own. Did you realize you can move stuff around? Try it. It's Ajax-a-licious. Grab something with your mouse and scootch it wherever you want it to be.Technorati thinks I'm cool. You should too.








