Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Lesson4, Mystery meat navigation

Mystery meat Navigation(MMN) as described as its term is regarding to web navigation design.

MMN is a term coined and popularized bu author, web designer, and usability analyst Vincent Flanders to describe user interfaces (especially websites) in which it is inordinately difficult for users to discern the destinations of navigational hyperlinks.


WD Lesson4: web Funtionality + Practicality + Aesthetic

Web Content Accessibility Guideliners 2.0 (WCAG)
-To make Web Content more accessible to people
-To solve problems
1. They want/need information
2. They want/need to make a purchase/ donation
3. They want/need to be entertained
4. They want/need to be part of a community

url: w3.org/TR/WCAG20/ validator.w3.org/


Audiences for accessibility

Visual Disabilities
Use enlargement, screen readers or Braille displays for font sizes & color contrast.

Hearing disabilities
Need captioning for audio and video

Physical disabilities
Need to substitube the mouse usage with keyboard or voice input.

Cognitive disabilities
Need consistent navigation structure. Flickering designs can be a problem.

Technology or bandwidth challenged
May habe older browsers or computers, may have a dialup connection.

Url: www.webpagesthatsuck.com

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