Friday, February 23, 2007
Usablity Seminar
www.playmonday.com
Use of text equivalents (think about your experience with Lynx).
The text was easy at first but it wasn't very easy to tell when you had changed pages
Ability to use the site without plugins (e.g. Flash) and Javascript. (Again, think about how easy/difficult it was to use the site in Lynx where these are not available).
Some parts of the site were not accessible such as the lottery numbers.
Ability to use the site with just the keyboard in Internet Explorer.
Colour combinations used on the site (think about how the site looked to people with colour blindness).
The colours were dull, but the site was still readable.
Colour contrast of the site (think about how the site looked to people with age related visual degeneration).
The contrast was really dark making it really hard to read from.
Ability to apply user settings to the site (think about how the site behaved when you tried to change the text size on the site, and the simulation of what happened when colour changes were applied)
The size of the links changed but not all the fonts in the lottery numbers and 'how to play' were still small.
Use of text equivalents (think about your experience with Lynx).
The text was easy at first but it wasn't very easy to tell when you had changed pages
Ability to use the site without plugins (e.g. Flash) and Javascript. (Again, think about how easy/difficult it was to use the site in Lynx where these are not available).
Some parts of the site were not accessible such as the lottery numbers.
Ability to use the site with just the keyboard in Internet Explorer.
Colour combinations used on the site (think about how the site looked to people with colour blindness).
The colours were dull, but the site was still readable.
Colour contrast of the site (think about how the site looked to people with age related visual degeneration).
The contrast was really dark making it really hard to read from.
Ability to apply user settings to the site (think about how the site behaved when you tried to change the text size on the site, and the simulation of what happened when colour changes were applied)
The size of the links changed but not all the fonts in the lottery numbers and 'how to play' were still small.
Wednesday, February 07, 2007
Fast Exercise - Presentations
On the morning of our presentation we really thought that our presentation was going to be a failure, as two of our group members didn't turn up.
It came to about quarter past eleven, and everything that could have gone wrong had. The man from the windmill was meant to open for us so the school children could have the treasure hunt around the displays didn't turn up. Not that this really mattered anymore because the school children didn't either! Anyway, at about twenty past eleven Jools, arrived with about 20 other people from our class. Yes, there are people, but they aren't eight year olds that would benefit from the style of our presentation! Needless to say, we carried on as if they were this age, and it was really successful. Even though everyone in the group was over 18, they were excited about finding the dough people around the park. When everyone had found these people, we made everyone get in a circle and read out their clues on the dough people. Then we quizzed everyone on George Green's life, and they had to match their dough clue with the appropriate question. This worked well, and i could have seen it being a success with the children too!
It came to about quarter past eleven, and everything that could have gone wrong had. The man from the windmill was meant to open for us so the school children could have the treasure hunt around the displays didn't turn up. Not that this really mattered anymore because the school children didn't either! Anyway, at about twenty past eleven Jools, arrived with about 20 other people from our class. Yes, there are people, but they aren't eight year olds that would benefit from the style of our presentation! Needless to say, we carried on as if they were this age, and it was really successful. Even though everyone in the group was over 18, they were excited about finding the dough people around the park. When everyone had found these people, we made everyone get in a circle and read out their clues on the dough people. Then we quizzed everyone on George Green's life, and they had to match their dough clue with the appropriate question. This worked well, and i could have seen it being a success with the children too!
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