Comments on: Easy-to-use Flickr and YouTube

By: Diablo

Diablo — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 23:00:37 +0000

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Very well then! Well done, there are many people who are just confused of the plentitude of some websites. Some pages seem to consist only of ads, others confound the users with extra small font sizes. I really admire older people who handle the internet easily, but some need help and with the \”easy to\” players.
I appreciate every bargain that raises the accesibility to the internet, because the collected knowledge of the entire world should not be restricted to several groups. There is no valuable commodity than knowledge.
As long as people think altruisticly it is not as bad as all that.
Laura, I totally agree with you and appreciate your well sophisticated suggestions. Quote-end

I agree with you completely.Espcially Youtube player would be cool.

By: Kreuzfahrten

Kreuzfahrten — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:53:13 +0000

Very well then! Well done, there are many people who are just confused of the plentitude of some websites. Some pages seem to consist only of ads, others confound the users with extra small font sizes. I really admire older people who handle the internet easily, but some need help and with the \”easy to\” players.
I appreciate every bargain that raises the accesibility to the internet, because the collected knowledge of the entire world should not be restricted to several groups. There is no valuable commodity than knowledge.
As long as people think altruisticly it is not as bad as all that.
Laura, I totally agree with you and appreciate your well sophisticated suggestions.

By: Laura Landy

Laura Landy — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 17:01:51 +0000

Really appreciate expanding the boundaries of “accessibility” to include beginners and cognitively impaired users. Even I, a baby boomer advanced user, get frustrated in some web2 sites. Language and visual/interactive paradigms have changed dramatically since I started doing web work back in the late 90′s.

Yes, interactivity experiences have improved exponentially since then. But that is in large part due to new generations who grew up with computers, gaming, surfing and networking over the internet. They’ve developed a whole new visual and interactive language that makes many assumptions about user familiarity with these emerging paradigms.

Simplification of interfaces and interactions have increased overall usability for all. But the underlying assumption that the user knows the new language of terminology, visual parsing based on labels, placement, iconic representation, etc has raised the threshold for prerequisite user experience.

This assumption presents barriers to those who fall below this threshold–older generations, cognitively impaired, economically or culturally barred from exposure to technology, etc. I believe this is one of the underrepresented issues addressed by the accessibility/usability community, although it has been coming to the forefront with the sustainability movement.

Thanks again.

PS: I did find one issue with rendering; it’s an ubiquitous one. When the text size is increased, the content bleeds over the edges of the background graphic. Sometimes this ok if the text and background color have sufficient contrast, but many times, similarity in colore and intensity create legibility. This brings us to the thorny problem of using static background images…