Children's Websites: Usability Issues in Designing for Kids
Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox, September 13, 2010, Children’s Websites: Usability Issues in Designing for Kids: “New research with users aged 312 shows that older kids have gained substantial Web...
View ArticleGoogle Apps Accessibility Evaluation Project
“In the summer of 2010, Peter Mosinskis from California State University Channel Islands assembled a team of approximately fifteen volunteers from seven different CSU campuses and one from the UC...
View ArticleForum Guide to Ensuring Equal Access to Education Websites Introduction to...
Forum Guide to Ensuring Equal Access to Education Websites – Introduction to Electronic Information Accessibility Standards, July 2011 “This guide is designed for use by information technology...
View ArticlewebAIM – Web Accessibility In Mind
“WebAIM (Web Accessibility In Mind) has provided comprehensive web accessibility solutions since 1999. These years of experience have made WebAIM one of the leading providers of web accessibility...
View ArticleNLM Releases New Health Literacy Tool Shed Website
“The U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), in collaboration with Boston University School of Medicine is pleased to announce the launch of the Health Literacy Tool Shed:...
View ArticleNew on LLRX – Fight for Kindle all-text bold option: Why you STILL need to...
Via LLRX.com – Fight for Kindle all-text bold option: Why you STILL need to write Amazon – and the media – David Rothman has been proactively and consistently engaged in an effort to increase visual...
View ArticleWireless Substitution: Early Release of Estimates From the National Health...
Wireless Substitution: Early Release of Estimates From the National Health Interview Survey, July–December 2015. Stephen J. Blumberg, Ph.D., and Julian V. Luke, Division of Health Interview Statistics,...
View ArticlePerformance.gov: Long-Term Strategy Needed to Improve Website Usability
Performance.gov: Long-Term Strategy Needed to Improve Website Usability, GAO-16-693: Published: Aug 30, 2016. Publicly Released: Aug 30, 2016: “The Office of Management and Budget (OMB), General...
View ArticleOMB Issues Policies for Federal Agency Public Websites and Digital Services
November 8, 2016 memorandum – OMB – “Federal Agency public websites and digital services are the primary means by which the public receives information from and interacts with the Federal Government....
View ArticleReport – The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think
Jakob Nielsen on November 13, 2016. “Summary: Across 33 rich countries, only 5% of the population has high computer-related abilities, and only a third of people can complete medium-complexity tasks....
View ArticleNew design and features for loc.gov
(The following is a post by Gayle Osterberg, director of communications for the Library of Congress) “The Library of Congress launched its first website in 1994. Since that time we have digitized and...
View Article2017 US Government Website Clarity Index
“VisibleThread’s Web Clarity Index is a methodology for measuring the clarity of web content. In 2016, Visible Thread published an Index as a follow-up comparison to a 2011 review of 29 federal agency...
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