- From: gregory j. rosmaita <oedipus@hicom.net>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 17:54:18 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com>
- cc: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>, Anne Pemberton <apembert@erols.com>, WAI Cross-group list <wai-xtech@w3.org>, w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
aloha, y'all! On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Kynn Bartlett wrote: > Has this URL (for a usability study on font readability) been passed > around yet? > > http://psychology.wichita.edu/surl/usabilitynews/3S/font.htm it is worth noting that the usability news is available in an "easy print" (or, from the URI, EZprint) version which uses (surprise! surprise!) a sans-serif font (arial) it is also worth noting that the EZprint version uses the deprecated, non-scaling, absolute presentational element FONT, rather than stylesheets, which would make me think twice about hiring wichita state's software usability research laboratory to perform a usability analysis on anything... and yet, since we are endlessly debating (a) if there really is a dichotomy/difference between usability and accessibility, and (b) if there is, where the dividing line can be drawn; i think it worth our collective while to investigate their "Optimal Web Design" resource, a set of criteria/guidelines/information/statistics located at: <http://psychology.wichita.edu/optimalweb/> although i found that using the "print" version of the page easier and quicker going, once it loaded: <http://psychology.wichita.edu/optimalweb/print.htm> so i'd recommend using the second URI, which again, i must say, gives me pause... choking down another spoonful of his own dogfood, gregory. PS: anne, i have a detailed response to your post (the first, i assume, in this sub-thread), but it is trapped on my win2k box by one of the 3 instances of outlook that, for some ungodly reason, are attempting to run simultaneously on my box... in any event, once i reboot and reconnect, i should be able to send it out... i'm also currently processing this thread in reverse, so apologies if this has already been covered... ------------------------------------------------------------------- CYNIC, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. Hence the custom among the Scythians of plucking out a cynic's eyes to improve his vision. -- Ambrose Bierce, _The Devil's Dictionary_ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Gregory J. Rosmaita, oedipus@hicom.net Camera Obscura: http://www.hicom.net/~oedipus/index.html -------------------------------------------------------------------
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