- From: Anne Pemberton <apembert@erols.com>
- Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 07:29:26 -0400
- To: "gregory j. rosmaita" <oedipus@hicom.net>, Kynn Bartlett <kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com>
- Cc: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>, WAI Cross-group list <wai-xtech@w3.org>, w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
Greg, Great site!! Thanks. I checked a few of their categories, but focused on their advice for making web pages for children (since I make a lot of pages for the kids), and found their observations consistent with what I've seen of the kids using the web during the past two years. I found it interesting that I'd learned to use the 14 point ariel for the pages and that is what they say is a preferred font to fifth graders. Must work with younger kids just as well. Look forward to your reply. I just gave up on my fourth attempt in five years to use outlook, and went back to Eudora. Anne At 05:54 PM 7/27/01 -0400, gregory j. rosmaita wrote: >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 >------------------------------------------------------------------- Anne Pemberton apembert@erols.com http://www.erols.com/stevepem http://www.geocities.com/apembert45
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