- From: Miraz Jordan <miraz@firstbite.co.nz>
- Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 07:19:51 +1300
- To: "W3C WAI IG" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
At 21:48 +0000 08/11/2001, Jonathan Chetwynd wrote: >many pages have a totally spurious banner >You have 1 email >or similar. > >My students assume this is TRUE, and have difficulty believing me. >[snip] >They often have a dozen windows open, and don't realise.... At 16:58 -0500 08/11/2001, Joel Ward wrote: >I've always wondered if those faux "You have 1 email waiting" pop-up and >banner ads actually worked. > >The question is: Are they successful in grabbing new customers, or merely >frustrating users? > >How do your students respond when they click on the fake "Ok" button? Heh! I teach a large number of adult new users - general public who don't declare themselves as having any special abilities or disabilities - and Jonathan's statements above are exactly true for that group. Those false "windows" work almost every time for a lot of them. Generally most of my students don't have a clue about having large numbers of windows open and when new windows do pop open uninvited they get very confused. I have an article in the current issue of Digital Web which talks more about my experience with new users and how bewildered they get: <http://www.digital-web.com/tutorials/> Digital Web Magazine - Tutorial: What's happening? A new look at Web pages Cheers, Miraz -- Personal site: <http://www.miraz.info> - blog, photos and other assorted experiments
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