- From: <carol@kognitive.com>
- Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 16:37:11 -0600
- To: "Sailesh Panchang" <sailesh.panchang@deque.com>
- Cc: public-wai-eo-site@w3.org
Great suggestions - thanks! The notepad files are an easy solution that will be very effective I think. Carol >-- Original Message -- >Reply-To: "Sailesh Panchang" <sailesh.panchang@deque.com> >From: "Sailesh Panchang" <sailesh.panchang@deque.com> >To: <public-wai-eo-site@w3.org> >Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 17:32:37 -0500 >Subject: Re: Question Regarding AT > > >Hello Carol, >1. Well, I would like to have the list of 52 items say in one Notepad file >and the seven categories numbered (as 1, 2, 3... or A, B, C,....)in another. >Then I will pick (copy) the first of the 52 items, review the categories > in the other file and drop (paste) it under the category I think is appropriate. >2. Another way is to have the two lists separately as before. Then label >every item in the list of 52 with its category. >3. Someone who prefers to work with a spreadshheet might like to have the > categories in column B, C, D...H (column header) of an Excel sheet. >The 52 items can be in column A (row headers). One can set an Excel sheet >to read row and column headers and navigate down the list. Against every >item in the list, one can move sideways and mark an X in the desired column. >Hope these help. >One can also use table in MS-Word but that might be a bit clumsy I feel. >Sailesh Panchang >Senior Accessibility Engineer >Deque Systems,11180 Sunrise Valley Drive, >4th Floor, Reston VA 20191 >Tel: 703-225-0380 Extension 105 >E-mail: sailesh.panchang@deque.com >Fax: 703-225-0387 >* Look up <http://www.deque.com> * > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Carol at Kognitive.com > To: Sailesh Panchang > Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 3:36 PM > Subject: Re: Question Regarding AT > > > As soon as I sent this I thought of a third scenario: > > Would you copy the text and put it into another program to sort? > > Thanks again, > Carol > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Carol at Kognitive.com > To: Sailesh Panchang > Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 2:32 PM > Subject: Question Regarding AT > > > Hello Sailesh, > > I am working on creating an HTML based card sort* for the WAI Website >Redesign Project for use at CSUN. The list of items to sort is approximately >50 - which need to be sorted into 7 groups. > > I'd like your opinion on whether it is generally easier when you are >given a task such as this, to use two lists (one with the items and one with >the categories) or to use a Table to sort the information? > > Should I just offer both versions for people using AT to access the page? > > Any help is appreciated! > > Thanks, > > Carol J. Smith > Kognitive Consulting, Inc. > email: carol@kognitive.com > url: www.kognitive.com > cell: 773-218-6568 > home: 773-262-5348 > > *A card sort is a usability test used to help guage what the best information >architecture might be for a website. It is done by having a participant >sort a deck of cards into categories.
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