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User-Centered Design and Usability: Its Role in a Project
The role of the User-Centered Design (UCD) process is vital to the success of site and/or application development yet it remains something of a foreign concept. It is also frequently bundled in with “Usability” and tacked on to the end of a project instead of taking its proper place as the underlying foundation. So, what is User-Centered Design and how should it be applied?
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Accessibility Evaluators Aren’t Worthless
As seen on our Resources page, there are a number of web accessibility evaluation tools available to developers. Most accessible web developers fall into three groups as it pertains to the value of these tools. Either they love them, hate them, or don’t really understand how to use them. The purpose of this article is to encourage those who love them to not overly depend on them, those who hate them to stop being haters, and those who don’t understand them to come away with an open mind.
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Specifications, Standards, Guidelines and Recommendations
Don’t be a slave to a standard.
By now, web standards should be something we are all used to. We can validate page markup against the Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML) and HyperText Markup Language (HTML) specification documents. We can check style sheets against the Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) specifications.
Then there are guidelines…
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A Command of Headings: Usage and Styling
I command thee, headings. Do not defy me as I am the all-powerful web developer. I am your master for I wield a style sheet with which I can make you mine…
Wow! Where did that come from? It sounds so dramatic. And, yet, it so well defines our relationship with heading elements. Of course not everyone will feel this way. I, for one, recall a time when headings where something I avoided using. I mean, really, they’re so big and black and ugly. That was early-on in my foray into the craft, though, when paragraphs — or pseudographs as I like to call them now — were made by placing two break elements between two blocks of text. I didn’t know better. I didn’t realize the power I had at hand via my style sheet. I learned.
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