I was pleased to read in VIA Magazine that AAA has revamped one of their sites, seniordriving.aaa.com. The article said the revision would provide new content, including advice, tools, and even brain-fitness exercises. The site officially launched March 1, 2012, and I checked it out as soon as possible. First, let me say that I love [...]
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In this section, we discuss design guidelines in the context of how they apply to older users, and illustrate the discussions with screen shots from public websites that show good and bad implementations.
The menus, and the scrollbars, and the, um…you know, those things that do stuff? Actionable icons? I seem to have missed the meeting where Apple, Firefox, and Google decided to disappear these items, which were, perhaps, cluttering up their new, more streamlined user interfaces? Figure 1 shows a Google landing page, circa Jan 2012: When it looked [...]
Both WCAG and Section 508 recommend the ability to resize text, but the following implementation probably wasn’t what they had in mind. The provisions of Section 508 apply to the Federal Government, of course, but it should come as no surprise that some agencies do better at implementing accessibility than others. Don’t take a page [...]