Re: Horizontal Scrolling for Reading Text: Why it doesn't work.

+1

Thank you, Wayne!

Kindest Regards,
Laura

On 2/1/17, Glenda Sims <glenda.sims@deque.com> wrote:
> Wayne,
>
> I'm deeply grateful for your research on this!  I always knew it was a
> pain, but I did not truly understand how bad it was until I experienced it
> myself.  I want the world to understand this now!
>
> G
>
> glenda sims    |   team a11y lead   |    deque.com    |    512.963.3773
>
>
> *web for everyone. web on everything.* -  w3 goals
>
> On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 5:01 PM, Wayne Dick <wayneedick@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> If you would want to understand why horizontal scrolling is really not
>> the
>> following gives a quantitative explanation. Nobody has ever done this
>> analysis before.
>>
>> http://nosetothepage.org/Fitz/2dScroll.html
>>
>> You cannot make an informed judgement of Resize Content and Linearize
>> without considering this proof of extreme user need. Two dimensional
>> scrolling of blocks of text is not just annoying it is a profound
>> disruption of the reading process.
>>
>> Wayne
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>> Wayne
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-- 
Laura L. Carlson

Received on Thursday, 2 February 2017 13:04:06 UTC