Archive for February, 2010

Back breaking

Posted by Tommy on 19 Feb 2010 | Tagged as: Usability, Web Development

Never break the browsers back button. It’s one of Jakob Nielsen’s top design mistakes from 1999 and it still holds true over ten years later.
The back button is the web users fail-safe, it’s something they can draw comfort from when they’re lost in the depths of a website. I’ve observed many a test where users [...]

WAVE

Posted by Tommy on 11 Feb 2010 | Tagged as: Accessibility, Web Development

Not Google wave, but a free web accessibility evaluation tool from Webaim. Particularly useful for those of us working on Intranets as it can be installed as a Firefox add-on.
http://wave.webaim.org/

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