- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 10:19:43 +0100
- To: <paciello@ma.ultranet.com>, "Lisa Seeman" <seeman@netvision.net.il>, "WAI" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
At 12:10 PM -0500 3/6/01, Mike Paciello wrote: > >Mouseovers are "needed"/"wanted" to attact the user's attention, to > > draw attention to the link. :) >Kynn -- not sure whether this is meant to be a serious statement. Looking at it, it's hard to tell, yeah. >I'd >debate, from a usabilty perspective, that this is true. Mouseovers, more >often than not, come under the topic of "discovered functionality" -- >particularly for the average, non-techie user. But the way you "discover" it is that if you mouseover (select) something, the UI notifies you in some way. In some cases it's only as subtle as a mouse pointer changing from an arrow to a finger; with mouseovers, you actually get an increase in accessibility/usability because the change is a change of the graphic. (The problem here is "links which are not obvious." Mouseovers are one of the ways in which designers can alert [certain] users to the fact that a visual element of the page is also a link.) --Kynn -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com> http://www.kynn.com/
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