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September 12, 2002 Vol.1 #10
What's new at the Web Design Reference site?
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1. ACCESSIBILITY
2. CASCADING STYLE SHEETS
3. EVALUATION & TESTING
4. EVENTS
5. INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE
6. JAVASCRIPT
7. MISC.
8. NAVIGATION
9. STANDARDS, GUIDELINES & PATTERNS
10. USABILITY
11. XML
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1. ACCESSIBILITY
Mini FAQ About The Alternate Text Of Images
By Ian Hickson
Computer mouse for the blind developed
by Reuters
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2. CASCADING STYLE SHEETS
Revisiting "Table Layouts, Revisited"
By Bill Mason
A response/reaction to Zeldman's recent reflections.
Font Sizes & Font-Family
By Sam Foster
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3. EVALUATION & TESTING
How to Conduct Usability Evaluations for Accessibility
Methodology Guidelines for Testing Websites and Intranets
With Users Who Use Assistive Technology
By Kara Pernice Coyne and Jakob Nielsen
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to assist visually impaired users at
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Graphical Presentation of User Profiles
By Tomi Kankainen and Jarmo Parkkinen
"GUP is a technique for creating visual representations
of system users. Just as storyboards are 'visual scenarios',
GUP can serve as a 'visual persona'. As useful as personas
are, they are primarily textual. GUP and variants offer
a 'user at a glance' format that complements the rich
story a persona and scenarios can communicate. The rest
of the between project looks pretty cool too."
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not have acrobat you can download the acrobat viewer from
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installed on their computers. It allows you to open and
view a PDF file. Additional Adobe free tools are available
to assist visually impaired users at
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4. EVENTS
Workshops
Fall Semester 2002
Information Technology Systems and Services
University of Minnesota Duluth
Duluth, Minnesota U.S.A.
Unless otherwise specified, workshops are for UMD
faculty, staff and students.
WebdevShare 2002
October 6-10, 2002
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana U.S.A.
Society for Technical Communication Conference
May 18-21, 2003
Dallas, Texas U.S.A.
Graphics Interface 2003
June 11-13, 2003
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
The First Annual Workshop on HCI Research in MIS
Association for Information Systems
December 14, 2002
Barcelona, Spain
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5. INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE
Information Architecture: Carrying out a Classification
Situation Analysis
By Gerry McGovern
Strategies for Categorizing Categories
By User Interface Engineering
Critical Architectural Junctures
By Louis Rosenfeld
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6. JAVASCRIPT
Regular Expressions in JavaScript
By David Andersson
Introduction to JavaScript
By Robert Crooks
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7. MISC
Building the Beast: Talking with Peter Morville
By George Olsen
"When we wrote the first edition, we had relatively
little experience. Most of our massive IA projects
at Argus came afterwards."
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8. NAVIGATION
Search Interfaces
By Liz Danzico
"This investigation is about the ordering and structure
of the search fields themselves, not the results, which
have been the topic of much discussion already."
Navigate on the right? The jury is still out
By William Hudson
Place Navigation on the Right
By Usability.gov
Comment: Left or top navigation is usually the first thing
read by a screen reader. So for accessibility right side
vertical navigation is an alternative to top or left navigation
if you want to avoid adding a way to skip navigation links.
Right side vertical navigation also reduces wrist movement
for mouse users. - llc
Concepts for Improved Visualization of Web Link Attributes
By Harald Weinreich Winfried Lamersdorf
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9. STANDARDS, GUIDELINES & PATTERNS
AnySizeDesign
By allmyfaqs.com
Answering the questions:
What size monitor screen or browser window should I design for?
How do I design my site for any size browser?
Evolution Trumps Usability Guidelines
By Jared M. Spool
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10. USABILITY
Being User-Centered When Implementing a UCD Process
By Whitney Quesenbery
On Beyond Help: User Assistance and the User Interface
By Whitney Quesenbery
Use Usability to Best Advantage
By Melaney Smith
The Humane Environment
By Jef Raskin
Lessons to be Learned
by George Olsen
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11. XML
Intro to XML grammar
By Philip Page
RSS Tutorial for Content Publishers and Webmasters
By Mark Nottingham
"This tutorial explains the features and benefits of a
Web format called RSS, and gives a brief technical
overview of it. The reader is assumed to have some
familiarity with XML and other Web technologies."
A good read if you haven't figured out the difference
between RSS 0.9x (Really Simple Syndication), RSS 1.0
(RDF Site Summary) and RDF (a web standard for meta
data which is used within RSS).
Sending XHTML as text/html Considered Harmful
By Ian Hickson
Ian Hickson makes a case for using HTML 4.01 in
preference to XHTML, because XHTML should be sent
with a text/xml content-type header (which causes
most browsers, including IE, to fail to display it).
XForms a Huge Step Forward for Web Forms
By Timothy Dyck
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What Can You Find at the Web Design Reference Site?
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Accessibility Information
Association Information
Book Listings
Cascading Style Sheets Information
Color Information
Dreamweaver Information
Evaluation & Testing Information
Event Information
Flash Information
Information Architecture Information
JavaScript Information
Miscellaneous Web Information
Navigation Information
PHP Information
Sites & Blogs Listing
Standards, Guidelines & Pattern Information
Tool Information
Typography Information
Usability Information
XML Information
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