- From: Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 13:28:59 +0100
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
On 21/06/2013 13:22, Elizabeth J. Pyatt wrote: > It's not exactly a guideline, but Jakob Nielsen and others discuss > eye tracking studies and other research which suggest that online > readers (sighted and unsighted) scan pages rather than reading them > in depth. Although this is tangential, I'm personally suspicious of this old "distinction" being made (in various "writing for the web" style guides and courses) that users scan pages online rather than reading them in depth...because I'd posit that people do exactly the same thing with printed material as well (I guess you don't pick up a newspaper broadsheet and read it top-left to bottom-right) and that this really depends on the type of content and what the reader's purpose actually is (am I reading a story, for pleasure, or quickly going over some documentation to find something I'm after). But anyway, that's just me ;) P -- Patrick H. Lauke ______________________________________________________________ re·dux (adj.): brought back; returned. used postpositively [latin : re-, re- + dux, leader; see duke.] www.splintered.co.uk | www.photographia.co.uk http://redux.deviantart.com | http://flickr.com/photos/redux/ ______________________________________________________________ twitter: @patrick_h_lauke | skype: patrick_h_lauke ______________________________________________________________
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