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New Standards to Help Screen Readers Navigate Web Forms: Techniques to Improve Usability for All

Introduction Web 2.0 entices web authors with dynamic capabilities, but these advances in performance and functionality have proven a barrier to a growing contingent of users. Many interactive web elements, including forms with dynamic updates and error validation, can be disorienting to users and inaccessible to blind people who use a screen reader to access…

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Usability Evaluation

Role Reversal: Testing for Ease of Learning and Recall

When testing a software package, include traditional roles found in a pyramidal training model but also a reversed, “train the trainer” round.

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Accessibility and Universal Design

Stepping In: An Outsider’s Guide to Crossing the Digital Divide

“Bridging the Global Digital Divide” teams are looking at new interaction technologies and design practices for users whose lives could be transformed by advances in computing and communication.

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User Research

Model-driven Inquiry: A Streamlined Approach to Data Collection

Contextual design models can be developed through exploratory modeling, providing a potentially useful framework to guide and speed up the later modeling activities.

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Visual Design

Information Graphics: An Eclectic Celebration

Guidebooks on effective visual communication are frequently published for those who have not been exposed to information design and visualization, often obscuring similar publications of decades past.

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User Research

User Interview Techniques: Guidelines for Obtaining Better Results

An interview technique review worksheet emphasizes continual improvement and provides an easy way for team members to evaluate a user research interview session.

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The View from Here

The View from Here: Raising the Floor

Raising the Floor is creating an open source set of tools to create free public access features built directly into information infrastructure, facilitating affordable assistive technologies.

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Book Reviews

The Classy Classic: Designing the User Interface (Book Review)

This updated edition of a text about designing user-interfaces is testament to the evolution of these and other related topics the past two decades.

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Editor's Note

Editor’s Note: A Gourmet Meal of Content, Context, and Analysis Awaits You

The worldwide economy is suffering greatly. Consequently, many corporate, government, educational, and organizational budgets have become diminished. That situation always affects new product development and, with it, the decisions to undertake a variety of usability and user-experience activities—from ethnographic observations, contextual and task analyses, to usability tests, remote testing, and many other usability evaluation and…

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What's News

What’s News: Hey Good Lookin’

The marketing campaign for TriSpecs™ is focused on user experience as the key selling feature, however the website itself is not a great model of usability.

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User Experience

New Standards to Help Screen Readers Navigate Web Forms: Techniques to Improve Usability for All

Role Reversal: Testing for Ease of Learning and Recall

Stepping In: An Outsider’s Guide to Crossing the Digital Divide

Model-driven Inquiry: A Streamlined Approach to Data Collection

Information Graphics: An Eclectic Celebration

User Interview Techniques: Guidelines for Obtaining Better Results

The View from Here: Raising the Floor

The Classy Classic: Designing the User Interface (Book Review)

Editor’s Note: A Gourmet Meal of Content, Context, and Analysis Awaits You

What’s News: Hey Good Lookin’

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