Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Hemorrhoids From Brazilian Waxing

SEO and Flash? An impossible love (whatever Adobe Mom and Dad want you to believe Google)

Someone else agrees with what I said here and here about the much-hyped indexing Flash content.

Testing Crawlability with Hope
That's what you're doing with Flash content for SEO - Hoping. Google's Flash-crawling technology is proprietary, and while we all know can test and see what search engines and links from a content perspective in HTML, there's no "test my crawlability site's Flash file "feature that I'm aware of, leaving us very much in the dark about Exactly how the engine's going to parse your material.

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Letter Showing Community Service Was Done

Adobe Flash accessible to search engines. Besides what's the hype?

addition to the aforementioned problems should oppose some other barrier madrigals the brass band parade set in motion by the accessibility of Adobe Flash content to search engines.

First, the crawler of the search engine index n on the swf. built via JavaScript (you know the trick to avoid ' click to activate 'in IE? Good. Him.)

In the second instance, and most importantly, the crawler will not index swf dynamically loaded as external resources nor XML.
Now, anyone with some experience in Flash Development is well aware that, not to go crazy with that mess in the timeline of Flash and to optimize the loading time (and a lot of other needs), and adjust steps to upload dynamic sections of the website. As far as I know the majority of Flash sites adopted just this approach. The more complex the site is so much more is needed this mode. Often you load in the first instance only the general framework (the UI standard) and then, upon user input, load the rest.
Well, as things only the first part will be crawled. Id est, un bel nulla. La presunta Home Page e poi il vuoto.
In altre parole nessuna moderna RIA verrebbe indicizzata, checché ne dica Adobe, a meno di non caricare l'impossibile in prima istanza.
Forse Adobe sta pensando come modello di RIA ai fulgidi esempi di Flash RIA di cui si é resa portabandiera con Acrobat.com che ci mette 5 minuti buoni (su di una fibra ottica) per caricare la UI?
Per quale tipologia di Flash site va bene questa presunta indicizzazione? Per i Flash sitarelli self contained. Detto altrimenti, coloro che meno avrebbero bisogno di essere indicizzati.

E se poi adottate un loader con caricamento dinamico via Actionscript di risorse esterne? Oh beh! quanto siete difficili!

Quanto rumore per nothing!

Trigger Flashes Finally, A Book That Gets It....

Adobe Flash accessible to search engines! Safe?

The content of Flash sites now available to search engine spiders. So say .
Drum roll. Trumpeted different. Shouts of joy. And no one has ventured to read between the lines of the press marketingese Adobe.

Adobe is Providing optimized Adobe Flash Player to Google and technolog y Yahoo! enhancement to search engine indexing of the Flash file format (SWF) and uncover That information is currently undiscoverable by search engines.


Outside the turn of events in 80 words of the Adobe PR, what we have is: No specific

  • open to all interested developers ma solamente delle indicazioni chiuse per ottimizzare gli spiders.

  • Queste indicazioni sono solo a vantaggio di Google e Yahoo! . Gli altri? Se lo prendono in saccoccia.



Per fare un paragone non ortodosso, é come se le specifiche ottimizzate dell'HTML 5 fossero date solamente ad un gruppo ristretto di webdevs lasciando gli altri con il fondoschiena nell'acqua ed andare poi sbandierando la notiziona della release di HTML 5 ai quattro venti su tutti i canali possibili per ostentare il 'proprio commitment' e risollevare le sorti di una tecnologia affossata dalle critiche (giustificate).
Gli altri webdevs avrebbero le solite specifiche mentre alcuni, privilegiati, avrebbero un vantaggio competitivo su questi ultimi.
Tutti sono uguali ma alcuni sono più uguali di altri.

Il tutto condito con tanto di giustificazione di quanto finora accaduto mettendo artificialmente nello stesso calderone tutti gli altri in modo da distinguersi in positivo con l'annuncio. Prima affermo stronzate tirando nella mia propria situazione tutte le altre tecnologie e poi mostro che io, a differenza delle altre tecnologie, sto facendo qualcosa per combattere la situazione di cui sopra.

RIAs and dynamic Web content have been generally difficult to fully expose to search engines because of their changing states — a problem also inherent in other RIA technologies


Bullshit.
E 'false the first position (the other technologies do not have any problems with Adobe Flash) and is therefore false consequent (Adobe is not doing nothing but trying to catch up on other technologies).
PR lesson: how to turn a disadvantage into advantage with a simple turn of phrase.

certainly a good marketing operation and a great PR effort. The facts are left out of that competition goes to hell as well as the possibility for Social Networks (which means the rising tide on the Internet) using Adobe Flash and consistently maintain the ability to operate internal investigations.
In the field the more I would also like to continue to be impossible to use Adobe Flash on RIA Business (intranet and Web Applications closed anyway) where they must then go to look for specific content. A

when opening a total gift of this package, Adobe?

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

My Flashes Absolutely Hilarious!

Adobe vs. Apple. No Flash for iPhone UI consistent




articulated position of Kontra on issues related to the lack of support for Flash Lite and Flash on the iPhone.

Adobe's interface strategy on the desktop has been to Avoid using native UI controls on the deployed OS in favor of Establishing and leveraging ITS own unique cross-platform UI paradigm That ITS runtime engine can deliver consistently on multiple platforms. Unfortunately

for Adobe though, Apple is in the process of establishing the first mass-market, multi-touch platform with the iPhone and has already migrated it partially to its notebooks. Clearly, Apple (which acquired FingerWorks and its patent portfolio in 2005) has greater ambitions in establishing a broader multi-touch gesture paradigm, likely to cover other devices as well

Sunday, June 15, 2008

External Flashes Great Gadget

Accessibility in Car Design



Una tuta speciale, studiata da Nissan, che aiuta a simulare (e registrare) il comportamento degli utenti della terza età nell'intento di migliorare la accessibilità dei nuovi modelli di auto in progettazione dalla casa giapponese.
E' chiaro l'intento di raccogliere frutti commerciali anche da questa fascia di utenti ma i dati raccolti saranno di aiuto nella ottimizzazione del Car Design nella sua globalità, andando ad impattare anche le altre fasce di età (e, dunque, di clienti potenziali).

Saturday, June 14, 2008

Professional Camcorders On Sale Detailed

Andy Clarke, reading time and web layout


Andy Clarke on Web Layout from Jeffrey Zeldman on Vimeo .

Andy Clarke shows how comic book artists use panel size to indicate how much time a reader is supposed to spend on a particular chunk of content. He argues that web layouts can work the same way. (Later in this talk, he'll show how.)

Andy Clarke: How often do we consider the space and the time that somebody is supposed to spend, or we want somebody to spend, looking at a particular panel. So if we look at something like this, there's a conversation going on at the bottom here. 'Actually, she turned out to be quite sweet. I actually took her out a few times.' 'Seriously?' 'No.' And it carries on. So those panels are smaller because we're supposed to take less time reading them. It's this flow and this rhythm. And this is something that comic books have done for a very, very long time. And it's something that potentially we can bring into the layouts that we make for the web.

Friday, June 13, 2008

Professional Camcorders

Mac OS X Jaguar (10.2) accessibility model. Anno Domini 2002





Documentazione Ufficiale sul Model/Object in Cocoa/Carbon Applications.

Hard Drive Recovery Disk Deserves A Better Title

Opera 9.5 IU. How to waste precious space




Nuova UI per Opera. Stessi problemi di sempre.
L'ingombro verticale supera, sia nella toolbar che nella status bar, abbondantemente quella dei rivali a parità di funzionalità attivate.
Opera 9.5 : 100px di toolbar e 21px di status bar.
Firefox 3: 80px di toolbar e 17px di status bar.
Safari 3 : 75px di toolbar e 15px di status bar.
Se qualcuno in possesso di IE 7 volesse prestarsi alla comparazione, avremmo un quadro ancora più completo.

Se prendiamo in conto i dati di vendita dei monitors e dei computers, la situazione diventa alquanto concern. Are becoming more common widescreen displays (monitors and as stand-alone and as part of that notebooks are replacing desktops) that promote horizontal against the vertical space while Opera is promoting the vertical dimension in contrast against the horizontal.

On the Mac, as usual (for Opera), inconsistencies abound. If the toolbar icons can go very well on Vista (for which have been studied of course) on Leopard, do not just punch him in the rest of the UI of the OS but also, more seriously, with the rest of the IU Opera itself. Neither the color scheme or style are consistent.
Note particularly the dissonance between the icons on toolbar side which, rightly, are in gray 75% and the main toolbar.
hurry the release? Maybe.
IU Opera problems persist anyway.

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Hard Drive Boot Disk Dvd Players And Drives

Accessibility Requirements for dummies. But only if they work in PA. For accessibility

last episode, as far as I'm concerned, the telenovela ' an accessible place in the sun'.

First, a premise.
fallibility of previous post was referring to one of the fundamental concepts of Science of the twentieth century. I apologize if I assumed that a common cultural background, obviously, is absent.
The title of the previous post so not only is consistent with the arguments but also, judging from the responses to the problem at hand. In response

go back because I would like, in conclusion of this discussion in open space, pull the threads of what has been lost on the road.

I am a down to earth. For me the important thing is that Flash designers worry for once the accessibility of its products. What I wish is that the designer development Flash animations by applying all the criteria and accessibility techniques that its platform allows. The rest will come with time.


And, as the 'platform' does not exist as a whole but has several features a seconda dell'OS si cui gira, dovremmo parlare non più di Flash in modo generico ma di Flash Player su Windows (su Mac, su Linux) e chiarire questa differenza.
Ciò non é discussione oziosa ma impatta sul lavoro quotidiano e sull'output. Inutile dare il via libera ai Devs (e qui parlo da Project Manager) sull'uso di una tecnologia sicuri della sua aderenza agli standards della accessibilità se poi, a conti fatti, è accessibile solo su di un OS. Sarebbe come dare il via libera sull'uso delle specifiche del CSS 3 che sono disponibili solo su Safari. Bello, certo. Peccato che solo gli utenti su Safari potrebbero vedere il tutto. Il resto? Si fottano .

Therefore, it is returned as a warning, the old and dear IE Required new form. Flash Player 9 for Windows required. Better accessibility, really.
We are talking about standards or did I miss something? That standard is something that only works on an OS?
Personally I have not given or will give, under these circumstances, the consent to the use of this technology going to tell the client the bale of access guaranteed. Matter of professional honesty.


It 's true that the shooting Bill Gates has always been, and often rightly, lo sport nazionale. Ma non si dovrebbe dimenticare che Microsoft, in materia di accessibilità delle applicazioni, si è mossa per prima e che solo recentemente Apple e Mozilla hanno migliorato i loro prodotti nel senso dell’accessibilità (consentendo, per esempio, agli screen reader Jaws e Window-Eyes di utilizzare Firefox). Quindi i rimproveri, se ci sono, andrebbero indirizzati ai competitors di Microsoft.


Ma vi peritate di usare tutti i sistemi operativi di cui pure discorrete oppure questo vezzo é solo a carico dei GUI designers?

VoiceOver é presente su Mac OS X da Tiger, id est dal 2005 (non proprio 'recentemente' quindi). Già you're on that page have a look at all that OS X provides for accessibility.
VoiceOver was developed in house in a gallop, just to make up for abandoning the Mac market by the only dedicated screen reader then available. ALVA Access Group in June 2003 announced its intention to abandon the software in question. In November 2003 he set out assuming Apple engineers to build a solution in house.
Panther (OS X 10.3) had just been launched (end of October 2003).
In other words, the very next version, Tiger just had VoiceOver and everything else in the system Integrated .
If we ventured to read up on platforms other than their'd all be a little better, computationally speaking.
Bertoni's position regarding the accessibility on the Mac is clearly not informed of the facts.

But, beyond what is stated above, there is also another big problem. The assumption that should be the operating system to allow

..., for example, to screen readers JAWS and Window-Eyes to use Firefox


is at least weird.
An OS exposes APIs on which the producers of SW / HW rely to build their applications. APIs are available for OS X di chiunque dato che la iscrizione alla Apple Developer Connection é gratuita . Apple non ha da permettere alcunché dato che é tutto a disposizione.
Ogni software per OS X può accedere a VoiceOver per il semplice fatto che VoiceOver é un servizio di sistema sempre attivo nel menu ' Servizi '.
Manca all'appello solo la volontà di Devs terze parti. Dove sono quelli di Jaws?

Jaws for Windows (il suo nome completo. Da non dimenticare). Jaws non funziona su Mac se non attraverso ambiente di virtualizzazione (80€ di software di virtualizzazione + Licenza Windows XP + 1GB RAM aggiuntiva to run smoothly in the machine virtualization. Sum: 240 €). Because Jaws is disabled on the Mac as citizens of the lowest category? Maybe because they do not invest in a platform with 12% market share considered, rightly, not profitable? It is perhaps telling that the disabled should be considered citizens in every respect but only if they use Windows ? In short, all are equal but some are more equal than others .

( note: the web site Jaws is the most useless can happen anywhere )


The fact that you continue to say that "A pixel is sufficient for differentiation and further" makes me think, do not take it that you do not have great practical experience with people with disabilities. Although assertions to the contrary, continues to forget the subject of accessibility: the disabled. I propose an experiment: try to turn a normal button on a form (located at a distance from another pixel) with the mouse emulator, his hands behind his back and using your mouth (with a pencil or a stick any) to interact with the keyboard. I'm not saying you can not, but maybe you will be more clear why the associations of motor disability were asked to increase these distances.


First, two concepts of two of ABC GUI Design.
Hotspot: The portion of the cursor to be positioned on a screen object before mouse click has any effect, regardless of the trigger (onMouseOver, onClick to, etc.) event.

Hot Zone: The screen objects that have the hot zones are areas where the hot moving the cursor should go to get a recording of an event on the GUI.



the first picture shows a mini navbar with two buttons as it is displayed to the user. Only 1 px visually divides the buttons.





The second image shows the hot zones are ready to capture the onMouse Events. Each button has its margin set to 10px on the horizontal axis. The effect is simple to implement with some CSS padding and margin on a tag of ul.
We have over 20 pixels of horizontal space in error. The example also shows how the offset diagonal of non-traditional full-limb motor control, is taken into account. In fact, the padding on a tag goes to cover the entire vertical dimension of the button rather than be content to surround with padding set on all the sides of the link.




The third image is the same as mini navbar would be displayed if the tables were to follow the laws set by Bertoni.

The differences are substantial. In the latter case we have a loss of consistency of the UI with buttons and highways to separate the resulting grid irretrievably lost.

said this also applies, for example, the ergonomics of a tool we use every day to comupter. The keyboard.

What we want most in all this, is that the UI remains usabilissima and consistent (as well as pleasing to the perception) for both types of users. not any sacrifices on the altar of the other . This is my country, apparently different from others, equality of treatment. Too easy to destroy the usability of a range of users to help another. Solution brief and by no means adhering to the basic principles of good UI Design.
If you hurt an arm, cut the other! seems to tell us this attitude.
How about directly using Lynx ?

Incidentally. I had disputed the claim about the connections of regulation 4. Bertoni, and suggests how to change the cards as a form button that is not a link. The form must have
button padding greater than a tool as is used in contexts where it takes you a clear choice which delivers results not recoverable. The typical example is the dialog of the installation of software. There are two contexts of human-computer interaction involving several different approaches to UI design.


I will certainly miss the experience with people with motor disabilities but on the other hand it is not that we are better in UI Design. Both said no offense. To each his own field, for goodness sake!


Back, finally!, The fundamental question and the questions I asked. The answers have
, CVD, demonstrated, as if it were needed, that the rules of accessibility are designed for the consumption of PA and, ultimately, should not be taken into account by the business sector because the rules do not consider it as a factor.
But, and this is the point, do not go telling and trumpeting the need to consider the disabled as first-class citizens like the other ? And, wonder, the first-class citizens just to go around the sites of the government? They also will not other desires, curiosity, in fact similar needs to those of other users? Or imagine their lives between home and relegated PA?
Behind the rhetoric lies in the service industry, as often happens, a turn of phrase that, to me, seems more offensive silence on the matter.
Consider them as equals, with the requisite specificity, does not mean real consider the flow of their lives on the net and not from laboratory ?

My question was specifically to make real the application of the rules of accessibility. To do this, however, there is need to start from two requirements:

  • The real needs of disabled users in the network

  • needs of the business network


find a meeting point between the two. This requires, unfortunately to no avail.

amend the rules and make them less fundamentalist taking into account both these factors do not encourage Project Managers we talk (if not commercial) to bring the blocks of code on standards available? Right now be commercially available is to die for a web application that makes business its raison d'etre. Between a ' useless to think of accessibility so this product will never be less accessible to adhere to draconian rules ' a ' do it! cost labor but Imagine delivering a product oriented business that is also affordable! 'I think that goes a big difference. At least in my eyes.

This and only this I requested. Including
who is interested only in their parish (which provides the bread and the bread and then to defend, for both) and that my assumptions are, unfortunately, accurate, I return to my personal amusements.


ps. the twenty-two rules are nonsense, however, demonstrated that those here. It would be honest rewrite changing, we're at it, the title of the original post.

Saturday, June 7, 2008

Hard Disk Drive Dvd Recorders Underwhelmed

fallible. Invitation to dialogue

I am going to respond to comments made by Marco Bertoni not a spirit of controversy, which I think useless, but to try, through the dialectic, to circumscribe a common background that can take us beyond the allegations in the absolute area of \u200b\u200bfeasibility.

A premise is a duty. I'm no 'rival' to anyone because I did not fight to excel. I would simply argue. If the discussion will prove fruitful, the better. Otherwise it will return all of its activities.

Reaffirm the need to write code that is syntactically and semantically correct and useful preliminary because it is an indictment against those who do not. What you consider a "no requirement", as the obvious need for the diagnosis of the first drug for me is the requirement for excellence in what it contains all the others. The more necessary, because sooner or later, so physicians will understand that drugs are prescribed without first visiting the patient. Some doctors, without rules and controls, are lethal. The correct structure and semantics of the content of Web accessibility are the key, you can not in any way give it up.


I'm sorry but I still disagree and for the same reason that we have seen others do not agree in ancient times.
It seems counterproductive to insist on trying to correct these effects last instead of tackling the causes. These are to be found in a mixture of mindset and business interests that should at least be able to identify and then try to aim in the communication process and legislation. A well-posed problem contains within itself the solution , someone said at the beginning of last century. Scientific spirit, of course. But much to ask to adopt a scientific criterion in a legislative act? So
as proposed, the rule takes the classic whistles for flasks. I do not know the analysis of context and I turn to the operators instead of individual action upstream on the business environment and professional that generates the effect. We continue to
look at the finger rather than turn our gaze to the one who points, then. After all, excuse the digression in other fields, I think we are masters of not addressing the causes of the problems but never limit ourselves only to the bin of the moment. Better
incinerators downstream or upstream action on the vested interests in high places and the cultural background of individuals with appropriate education for waste disposal?

repeat. The adherence to standards is not optional but is basis of the trade that is taking place. And the examination for admission to the profession.
But how do you discern the laziness and bad from professional and commercial needs of Project Management who prefer custom-made frameworks of thousands and thousands of lines of code that enable products, past, present and future, provided to large corporations?

therefore remains as unheard soundtrack, the problem of porting economic blocks consisting of code. Cui prodest?
(The commercial content of the blue sticker and it just moves to sell the product. We do not tell tales)


A private company can decide whether or not to pursue a policy of social responsibility (which, incidentally, offers a return of the image that also like the notorious commercial). None of us can criticize the choices of them. But a government in the different matter. If we agree that the government exists to serve all citizens, and if we agree that a disabled person is in effect a citizen like the others, then I do not "stop and reflect." If Google wants to use iframe as if it rains, no problem will lose a percentage of visually impaired users. Too bad for Google. But if administration discriminates against a group of users using a technology not available, this is unacceptable.


The answer confirms my claim without showing it.
argomentazone The primary is in fact given by the case of public utilities that, as I said, are rightly forced to comply with these rules.
My objection, again, gives voice to a completely different category, business, which has completely different criteria to operate. Here the fields where we both work influence, of course, our perspectives on the issue. In fact, what is said about the percentage loss customer does not take into account a basic rule business. A customer ceases to be profitable when the effort to satisfy his demands exceed the ROI from these expected . So, where is the margin? It would be worse for Google
pursue this niche. It would be commercial suicide .
Everywhere not only network, you can observe this simple principle at work. Go into any bookstore GDO (Feltrinelli, FNAC, etc.) and have a look at the catalog (both the vertical and the horizontal) and the behavior of the clerks trained ad hoc.

brutally put to annihilate an innovative service which could trigger halo effect and, therefore, to operate a cognitive lock-in to the brand with the application of Metcalfe's Law and the consequent positive impact on advertising revenue, it seems unreal but not a emerita nonsense if, as seems evident, we are still in the system called capitalism .

still believe you are starting from two different positions (not different a priori, is well understood). A business-oriented perspective and another public service oriented. Invitation to dialogue about these differences that I personally respect and recognize in their specificity. I do not know what it's worth the contrary.

course. It 'obvious that the underlining of links is useful only in blocks of text. The color-blind knows the conventions of design (menus, etc...) It 'something that, honestly, I took it for granted. No sane accessibility expert calls for an orgy of emphasis.


Bon. The notes, however, did not speak of the blocks of text, but generic links. I know what it refers to all but readers know of your requirements? Judging by the posts in forums and blogs full of zealots who call all'underline everywhere, the accessibility confused with usability (yep. someone confuses the issues of accessibility with those of the resource optimization Loading ...) etc. I know it's better to be clear on this point. It could well lead to the salvation army to obey Decalogues good but ill-equipped in independent thought.


The eyetracking research shows that pop-ups, flashing banners, advertising, etc. columns. are neatly and systematically ignored by users. The same Nielsen proposes an approach non etico: “making the ad look like content”.

Ma non capisco cosa tu veda di male nella sacrosanta regola che impone di evitare un attacco di epilessia al prossimo. Il requisito cinque dice solo questo, non proibisce banner o pubblicità. Attenzione a non fare il solito terrorismo sui requisiti.

Comunque abbiamo capito che le argomentazioni a favore della pubblicità lampeggiante e “esplosiva” sono inesistenti. Ci si chiede perché si continui a produrla. Un amico che lavora in pubblicità mi ha confessato che spesso a chiedere pop-up, animazioni e banner sono i clienti “ignoranti” e loro si adeguano. Perché contraddire un idiota che paga?


A dirla tutta non we have seen anything about insesistenza of the arguments in favor of commercials (judging from its actual use ). Neither seems to me that the answer can be inferred with a counter-argument appropriate scalable alternative proposals at the business level if not the mere statement of what I already said, namely the phenomenon of 'ad-blindness .

We have yet to find an alternative way to earn dindi through advertising. If those who branded the advertising 'explosive' have found the Holy Grail of the new Microsoft advertising is expected to check their White signed.
Pending the myth we have to make do with only three possibilities. Traditional Banners, Ad-sense-and in-context that is even worse to disguise the evil that wants to treat (as rightly noted Bertoni) in fact unusable as it would make the whole amount of information of the Internet spreading noise mixed content.

jokes aside, I still reiterate my invitation to take account of different factors, and often conflicting. If a bubble does not exist as the two positions as you will come to a strategy capable of being, together, effective and respectful of the needs of all stakeholders?


No indictment on my part, how to interpret the requirements of a regulatory requirement. Personally I have nothing against the fixed layout


You use a liquid layout (elastic).

I do not think one interpretation. It is rather, in terms of linguistic rules with a lot of reported imperative.
An invitation to the interpretation was something like
should be used, given the technical issues, adherence to the full compatibility in any web site must obey and analysis of usability, a fixed layout.

This is a decent way to communicate leaving a need space when interpretative contextualization.

According to Plato trouble me to exaggerate. These requirements are not asking for anything impossible, and are not in the wrong direction, they are just perfect as anything human. I choose to try to improve things from within.


not I never said that to be impossible (the supercelestial is not impossible, just perfect. An absolute logical type). I say apply what works for one side to everything. Pars pro toto. This is called absolutism that is what I am calling to avoid. Bertoni
I praised and continue to do so for his efforts in trying to improve in its sphere of influence, the current situation on which, as you may read elsewhere, we are in full agreement.
My notes are, of course, on the sidelines because they tend to indicate the existence of some problems and do not want to be but a 'critical ' in the classic sense, an analysis of a proposal. ' Critics' invitation to the barrier is not unilateral but the voice of the other. In this case, the needs of others.

This is no longer true with the Flash Player 9. Be careful not to give incorrect information;).
However, as I said elsewhere, it is wrong to confuse the accessibility of the Flash movie itself with the limits of the implementation of cross-platform and cross-browser plug-ins.


ahem.

I apologize but I am Mac user and Linux (debian) and use Windows daily to double-check. My problems are practical and concrete solutions require Adobe not PR.
I follow closely the developments platform without giving in to easy street number.



Confusing the output with the framework that makes it possible for delivering the output is wrong?
How do I count to view a swf without the player that makes it available?
As you have a glass of tap water without the water supply?
Without language there are words?
We can write a function without a formal syntax of programming?
And so on.

Come on.

The requirement is twenty-one, I think, the only one that was asked in a loud voice who represents the disabled persons. Nothing, "Bignami hasty" and then, but listen attentively to the demands of disabled users. We never forget who are the recipients of the benefits yielded by these requirements. People with disabilities. I assure you that a distance between pixels of a button and another for those with poor control of the pointing system is something delinquent. This is not only the visual perception of differences, but di destrezza manuale.

Se vogliamo parlare insieme di accessibilità dobbiamo sempre porci dalla parte del disabile, e cercare di capire le peculiarità di ogni disabilità.


Nope. Esiste un concetto vecchio come il bacucco (lo trovi nelle prime Apple HIG - Human Interface Guidelines) che si chiama Hotspot . Un pixel di differenziazione basta ed avanza se si ha cura del layout degli hotspot. Se poi il designer dorme e cazzeggia allegramente con i tutorials sul css, le regolette del SEO etcetera invece di studiare l'abc del GUI design, il problema non é del pixel ma del designer. Diamo una svegliata ai designer e tutto verrà di conseguenza. Limitiamo il 'designer' ai corsi regional and schools where they teach simply clicking buttons in Dreamweaver and Fireworks and here we have these results. Once again, issues of training and mindset.
What then should take the role del'utente in question is absolutely out of question. We would not be here either to discuss all this otherwise.

If news yesterday, the site of the police won as the best design usable and accessible I guess there is something wrong in the structure, but adherence to standards. If I adhere to the standards of the Code and at the same time produce an interactive flow from ass to users, we can say that the adherence to standards is not enough to ensure a damn?

Friday, June 6, 2008

.aorta.. More Condition_symptoms

Accessibility dell'iperuranio. When will the real one?

I take the occasion of an amusing article of Marco Bertoni to address some issues dear to me about the 'Law Stanca' and the problem of accessibility as it has taken shape.
Bertoni, the article mentioned, paraphrasing the main points of accessibility and allow me the use of his paraphrase to put their notes in the margins of the 'Law Stanca' addressed. How

exergue I would say that I agree with the intention of Marco Bertoni but I would have preferred a clear preface to the 'rules' in a position to clarify che ciò di cui si discorre è necessario analizzarlo caso per caso e, su tutto, non perfettamente applicabile a tutti gli ambiti del Web UI Design ma solo al campo preso di mira maggiormente dalla 'Legge Stanca' e nel quale maggiormente lavora l'autore dell'articolo, cioè le Pubbliche Amministrazioni che, per fortuna, non sono l'intero web.

Questo requisito ti chiede di scrivere codice pulito, senza errori sintattici e semanticamente corretto. Che significa? Significa che bisogna finirla con il codice spazzatura ;).


Il primo requisito è un non requisito dato che scrivere codice senza errori sintattici fa parte delle best practices. E' come dire a doctor must see a patient before prescribing a drug any. Ethics and conduct that does not need to be confirmed. The fact remains that the opposite happens and logically prior to the formal validity of the standard. In short, the rule states a requirement but not an indictment. An indictment against those, many who have been trained not to move with the times.
In the latter case, you are talking to the wind in those who do not care what his training or his own free market needs even more reason not to seize this invitation from imposed. In short, to whom is this indictment?

But, and this is il punto che svilupperò più approfonditamente in altro post, non è sempre colpa del coder il risultato che vediamo . Spesso, molto spesso, viene ordinato di riusare porzioni di codice per ottimizzare sul tempo e quindi sul margine di guadagno. Il problema é quindi non di chi scrive il codice ma delle sezioni commerciali che obbligano a tempistiche strettissime promettendo mari e monti nei canonici 7 giorni della Creazione. Solo quando si sarà parlato non ai coders ma ai 'Commerciali' si riuscirà ad ottenere qualcosa. Ma, si sa, il 'Commerciale' conosce solo una lingua. La domanda è quindi, quale vantaggio economico può bring large blocks of code to migrate towards accessibility?
In short, the point at issue is a false problem that does not identify its target precisely. To be redone.

This requirement forbids you to use frames. Let

: frames are ugly. They both web nineties. And makes a nuisance to screen readers. Old stuff and harmful words. And what about the inline frame (iframe )?...


Gmail uses an iframe to sea. Why? Why am I required to operate the web application and constribuiscono to decrease the waiting time increases, consequently, the usability globale della stessa. Aderire, senza residuo, alla norma porterebbe una usabilità minore e a funzionalità problematiche da implementare e fornire.
Certo, possiamo ben usare noi il DOM traversal +Ajax e ottenere quanto é da ottenere con divs ma, nondimeno, non mi sentirei di escludere apriori gli iframes quando possono dare una mano a gestire dei servizi risolvendo problematiche di HTTP request .
Se per aderire ad una regola frettolosa devo rinunciare ad offrire una piena usabilità della web application mi sa che occorre fermarsi a riflettere.

Se elimini la sottolineatura per i collegamenti e li differenzi dal testo normale solo grazie al colore, puoi creare notevoli problemi a chi è affetto da cecità ai colori, che non sarà in grado di distinguerli. Questo è un esempio per chiarire che non devi usare solo il colore per assegnare significato all’informazione.


L'informazione è data, in un layout, dalla differenziazione all'interno della griglia. In altre parole, il posizionamento fornisce informazione sulla funzionalità. Basta osservare una qualsiasi GUI su windows o Mac o Linux o Symbian o... per rendersi conto che gli strumenti sono suddivisi e posizionati in modo consistente per fornire una differenziazione percettiva immediata in base alla loro localizzazione. La stessa consistenza that must be achieved at the level of usability, even on the web. So it would be more appropriate to say not to fiddle with the positioning of the elements of the User Interface, and follow the conventions as the first rule. The rest is as redundancy. A page full of links where the menu is confused with the content of the page, even if it would not be chock full of underline immediately perceived in its primary function. With all due respect the good intentions.

This rule fosters the reading of the rules as a mere check list to which I have written previously . The truth is that the good old Web designer should be primarily a designer and know by heart the rules of good design that is not fuck with Photoshop (or Fireworks or whatever) but the study of space, communication analysis, redundancy noticed, transmission channel, perception, semiotics, etc.. Only when the 'web designers' are equipped with the skills that each designer will be worth it for granted insist on these minutiae, but it will be useless because the problem will still exist.
Before the structure then the details. The information structure is more detail without noise. Noise stressed but still noise.

If you like the animated gifs and flashing messages ... well ... you know ... happy ... But you're very close to the frequency of flashing, or you risk serious damage to those who suffer from photosensitive epilepsy. In addition to annoy us all.


And bread to those who work for whoever pays the web application without advertising?
In short, this is one of the rules to be taken cum grano salis. It fits very well to certain types of web site (type ' but who we are, but how many we are, but then we do it? "We write a letter? ') but certainly not all. It might be good in an ideal world but in the real world primary business is advertising . Like or less so. Amen.

Norma then be discarded if not in the presence of institutional sites, and personal websites Portfolio Web Site. The rest continue to ignore it for the simple reason given above. If the proponents of the law Stanca would sign monthly allowance paid by the latter to compensation for economic losses suffered by the removal of the banners we might see some results. For now the only hope of seeing the banners animazioncelle decrease is given by the finding that users are now ad-blinds. If so we will see a reverse trend is due not to respect the rules of accessibility, but the replacement of banners with something more effective in terms of achieving economic goals.

You must make sure that the text can be resized (enlarged). Even with Internet Explorer 6 and earlier (menu View> Text Size).
When the character is maximized there should be no overlap between the different parts of the page. Even resizing the window.
You must use a liquid layout (elastic).


the indictment against the fixed layout respond with three arguments:

  • Technical problems (for those not familiar, the Visual Design Lead at Google).

  • control by the Layout Designer.

  • Problems di leggibilità della informazione


Le norme sulla Accessibilità dovrebbero essere studiate in base alla situazione reale e non al mondo dell'iperuranio. Perchè il legislatore non mette un pò del suo zelo nello scrivere una lettera ufficiale a Microsoft invitandola a rispettare gli standards invece di legiferare a vuoto in direzione sbagliata?

Un liquid layout non è ipso facto accessibile (perchè mai dovrebbe esserlo?) e spesso si preferisce, per le tre obiezioni di cui sopra, optare per una soluzione fixed che è vantaggiosa in termini strettamente economici e di controllo del layout. Affermare che il fixed layout è da scartare a priori è quanto meno affrettata come proposizione (voglio esser buono e non pensar male circa le competenze nel campo del supporto browser agli standards dei consulenti interpellati in vista della Legge).
Per inciso, lo stesso ALA usa un fixed layout e nemmeno centrato. Se Zeldman in persona opta per questa via qualche dubbio da parte del 'legislatore' ce lo possiamo attendere. O no?

Immaginiamo poi un bel caso di un layout liquido a due colonne ove le colonne di testo della content area si estenderanno per il 90% della viewport. Dobbiamo ricordare l'abc della usabilità circa il numero di caratteri massimo su di una riga visualizzabile a video dall'occhio human?
Imagine the same case on a monitor 1600px horizontal resolution. A disaster of usability


A lot 'of people surf with scripting disabled. You have to do with it for a reason. So you have to ensure that your pages are usable even by those who have disabled scripts, applets, or other 2.0 stuff.

But the legislature is not neutral. If for religious reasons (' our bold) you can not do without your script inaccessible, then by an explanation of the features (that 15% of users will be lost) and, as a requirement Three provide alternative text equivalent.

You wanted the script? And now ride.

scripts but I'm not the devil. Just read PPK to understand that with a little 'expertise can do whatever you want.


Of course the 'script' (but then that means 'script'? Even php, ruby, python scripts are and need to stay where they are. In the body of the DOM) are not the devil. Equally certain is that this is a problem to be tackled with great care and parsimony of summary judgments by the witch-hunt that saw the carrier is leading the web applications (or RIA if you prefer) to be eligible candidates substitutes delle Desktop Applications. Il libello citato è importante (non il migliore in materia) e pieno di indicazioni utili ma in applicazioni complesse (tipo Yahoo Mail) vi è poco da accusare di religiosità fondamentalista in modo aprioristico e generico. Il codice JavaScript è in line perchè ha da essere inline. Se a questo punto le strade tra usabilitá ed accessibilitá divergono occorre affrontare il problema con occhio attento al rispetto di entrambe le necessitá e non sacrificare la usabilità sull'altare della accessibilità.

Devi garantire che le funzionalità (per esempio un menu) e le informazioni (il testo) presenti negli script, negli applet, nelle animazioni Flash siano direttamente accessibili alle tecnologie assistive.

Questo significa che devi installare uno screen reader e provare a navigare all’interno della tua animazione Flash. Se qualche “esperto” ti ha detto che Flash non puà essere accessibile, mandalo al diavolo e digli di leggersi la letteratura in merito e questi articoli.


Ironia della sorte, il famigerato articolo linkato è in Flash e non supporta il mouse scroll risultando quindi non usabile dagli utenti 'normali'. Vi è poi scritto a chiare lettere che Accessibilità con Flash è sinonimo di accessibilità Flash Windows .

All accessible Flash content must be tested on the Microsoft Windows platform. While there
Have Been recent improvements to the Apple Macintosh OS 10.4
release (Tiger), Including Called VoiceOver screen reader built in, the
Flash Player does not support this screen reader.


In other words, Mac and Linux takes you there in my pocket. Now, a technology it says when it adheres to standards-compliant, in all areas where you use , to the latter. Flash can, with a lot of work to be accessible only on Windows but it can not be called outright accessible unless you go back to the old 'IE Required' below disguise. One moment a user with respect to part, and which does not hurt, on the platform that deliberately ignores the most beautifully and standards that are not his. Better JavaScript inline compatible on all platforms that Flash on Windows only. Whatever one may say the 'experts'.

Ah. This is my favorite. I have also helped to correct an error in the first version of the statement.

You should always consider the fact that for those who have difficulty in controlling the pointing device is very difficult to select the link or right button if they are too close together. Imagine the frustration when after a huge effort to beat you click the wrong button. When you whistle your ears, think about the curses that will send users to this habit of sticking around. Will be the case for lack of affection?

The solution is simple: distance properly form buttons, form fields, and lists of links, in general, all active objects on the page.

I would add that even more than the default line spacing is better. But I know that not everyone agrees: There 's obviously people on the walls of text which is often seen in the horrific portals of many companies and Italian public administrations.


perceptual differentiation and not to enlarge the area indefinitely. Here is the problem.



If you look at the GUI of the Finder of Mac OS X, as famous example, we will see an icon in the toolbar and another is 1px of space, but all is well differentiated visually. You do not need a space that forces the user to travel with your mouse to move from one tool to another with the result of reducing its productivity and diminish the usability of all, it should be instead a remarkable differentiation.
Amazon, for its part, uses a 1px solid border with an arrow to do redundancy.



classic examples to show how the rules are far from an actual grip on reality.

is in this attitude that the hasty Bignami Stanca Law is that we must then seek the causes of accessibility as a mere label and list of commandments to be observed .

I repeat, calling for a change of mindset, which alone can ensure the successful progress in the studies in this area so controversial. Collaboration and dialogue by all the professionals concerned and not the ivory tower of the 'specialists'.
Decalogues but no discussion.

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

New York State Drivers License Template

Touch User Interface. A look at laboratory culturedcode

First steps of the iPhone version of Things , good GTD application for OS X.
First steps into the world of Touch User Interface Design. Many problems, different solutions.



The first impressions of culturedcode the difficulties of developing an application that interact in different behavioral patterns from the traditional Desktop Applications and that, nevertheless, it is proposed not to mourn the 'convenience' of the latter .

Sunday, May 25, 2008

Katarzyna Emmerich Pieklo Obrazy

Conway's Law

"Any piece of software That Reflects the organizational structure produced it."


Wikipedia link

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Flow. That is the UI Design is not simply designed makeup

After years and years of hype, expectations, referrals, closed beta, has finally come to the much-vaunted Flow priori. FTP client, it was said, intended to give an alarm to the niche market.

The reactions of people were immediately divided between those who immediately fell in love, singing the praises of the GUI and its minute details, and those who, instead, have begun to show the direction of its numerous bugs and marketing hype around the application going to pose pseudo-geek empty glorification of mere functionality at the expense of the graphic details of the GUI.

We must say that it is not ipso facto lead to hype bad if this follows a product worthy of the hype. I do not agree, never agree with those who, in a spirit of elitism illusory, tend to denigrate without a foundation product, any product based only on evidence of marketing.

is not bad at all considering an application from the point of view of mere attention to visual detail. It 's a key element in the User Experience and should never be left out (as I often do, especially on Windows).

The problem here is that all this hype and attention to detail no doubt a product does not match up to it. This is well understood, not for the many bugs that plague the application (we are now accustomed to paying to be beta testers), but for a precise choice of Interface Design that, pretending to innovate, thrown in the trash usability.

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single-window approach Flow pursues that does not fit the task for which it is proposed that is not the simple exploration and manipulation of folders in the remote but interaction between the local copy and one of these files remotely.

Historically this approach has a parent who can see it in action in any software is designed for operation diff / merge on files.

FileMerge Apple, for example.

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Here the file is compared line by line with its antecedent or consequent seeking changes that will be appropriate to incorporate into the final version that we will consider.

task that is associated with an FTP client is just like the synchronized navigation, a first version control between local and remote upload and download files to and from remote locations. In other words, the interaction between local and remote. For this simple reason, Flow fails its task as it forces the user to have another application external open and active to carry out successfully what should be its primary purpose .
should in fact have a Finder window in support otherwise the user will be unable to do anything but operations on the remote folder from the folder in the remote, so closed and exclusive. The user is then
trapped in the application and to find a way out of the impasse must be used effectively to external lifeline.

Interface Design This is bad because it is one thing to look for support in specific applications for specific tasks beyond the primary task of the application (open a text file for editing from the same FTP client, for example), another is used to aid external to accomplish the primary task for which there is an ftp client.

I write this after taking over the entire test flow in the probationary period and that immediately jumps to the eye and confirmed in daily use.

nell'Interface Design Innovation is not 'famolo strange' or take, as in this case, a paradigm from an application (in this case, the Finder itself, the iApps, etc.) and carry no residue on a task different.
contamination, when can be filtered and take out only what can be useful in rejecting what, in terms of usability, creates dysfunction in effectiveness of the UI. Ben is

So the attention to detail of the UI but that comes after a careful study of the behavioral pattern user of your application and the tasks and sub-task that needs to be completed.

Much ado about less than nothing, so to speak.

Saturday, May 24, 2008

Discount Ink Jets Very Disappointing

The Metamorphosis by Peter Kuper

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metamorfosi_interno.jpg

Inspired, rather than going into the stretch, from the comic genius of Winsor McCay , arrives on bookshelves for the types of Italian Guanda transposition in Graphic Novel, a Edited by Peter Kuper , one of the masterpieces of literature.

The metamorphosis of Kafka , already has her visionary, it is not disfigured, as often happens in the transposition of the drawings of Kuper who manages to keep up with some plans, like the second image above, and worthy of note. Some solution, but there are not many, a little too risky in lettering undermines the full enjoyment.
The choice, of course, the Black & White only serves to emphasize the environment in many significant steps made to strip while a few tricks too easily could have been avoided.

Excellent purchase, costs very little for a great book. Not a masterpiece of its kind to have but without a doubt.

Scholarships For Ankylosing Spondilitis Patients

Ergonomics anyone?

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not practical. Ergonomics zero. Industrial Design to its degree zero.

How you are supposed to interact with all of this together? Monitor
too far by the user with no possibility of deviation in the z axis to relieve the discomfort of this position.

Besides that, from the picture, we can deduce an absurd place the control over ports and CD Bay. The user is forced from the position of the monitor, at a certain distance from the sides of the desk that actually makes it inaccessible to the left side where the doors are located, the power button and the CD Bay unless you stick out, leaving the working position, to reach this side.

say nothing about other problems that obviously, there may be (expandability, heat dissipation, etc.).
Finally, as a detail, a slot loading instead of the usual drawer in a product that sells itself as 'futuristic'?

Friday, May 23, 2008

Solid Ink Copiers Verify If The Box Is Complete

Account forced. Usability of the BOL and checkout

is not necessary to force the user to open an account to buy an asset.

make it easy to do business with you . Keep in mind this simple rules.

Barnes & Noble , fresh redesign, it applies this principle perfectly.
The user can proceed to checkout without creating any accounts, but entering, one-off only the data needed for to complete the purchase process

barnes.png

In contrast, the usual BOL

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even require the user to open an account in order to proceed with the transaction. The

web marketing starts well before you have a web site that already beautiful finished and directly involves the UI Designer at the earliest stages of study. The usability of these critical steps in an e-commerce is, in fact, at least essential and will have considerable impact, both positive as negative, concerning the perception of customer service that is offered and, consequently, the Brand.

The difference between a checkout usable and a kick in the shins the customer is everything in this picture.

Thursday, May 22, 2008

Flatbed Scanner Manufacturers Bewildered No More!

IBS. E-Commerce to be redone.

They say a picture is worth more than many words. There
propose three.

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Immagine 3.png


Immagine 4.png

Note differences?

After choosing a book and its addition to the basket on the one hand we Amazon with its recommendations for additional purchases based on what might be of interest, as well put in the basket. On the other hand
IBS and BOL with ... the truck just .

Now, E-Commerce stands for electronic commerce which means that there is always the magic parolina ' commercio '.
Chiunque vada in una libreria, girovaga, leggiucchia, sceglie qualche testo, ne ripone qualcuno ed infine decide quale o quali acquistare e si dirige alla cassa.

Per BOL e IBS, invece, il commercio non é così.
Secondo il loro modello comportamentale, il cliente gira per la libreria digitale, sceglie un primo testo e subito si trova catapultato, come per magia, in cassa!
Tutto ottimo. Tutto studiato sul comportamento reale del cliente tipo che, secondo BOL e IBS sa già cosa vuole, sceglie in prima battuta e passa direttamente in cassa.

Ma anche se così fosse, rimane sempre la cara e vecchia ' vendita Additional 'or that the librarian or the library itself, such as architecture, try to the last. Just think of the books that are on the route that leads from the shelf where the book was taken, to the body and contain possible and buy more gadgets developed, on display , groped for cash before the last purchase.

BOL and IBS does not even attempt this.
or are too honest and respectful of the Customer or who designed the UI never purchased a book in his life.

The second you said.

Stare Polskie Piosenki

Something's wrong. The usability of error messages

There are different ways to communicate with their users. Even when things go wrong as it should go. This is
the best way.



E 'inconsistent treat only the side of the normal operation and then get lost, as I often see happen in the details of error messages. As in programming where one of the most important is the try catch error handling that is that any dev rightly devotes his time, even in the construction of UI should take care of the moment, that always comes, in which something is goes.
And instead I see more and more convoluted in the UI that are a sad counterpoint error messages left to the laconic web application without custom duty or explanation, when necessary, of what happened.

leave you dazed in front of a page that tells him something in a jargon unknown to him, often accompanied by a completely different layout from what until a few seconds ago was watching, is not the best way to cure the usability of a web site.

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Rca Dvd Changer Does Not Play Cd-r Music Discs.

The Web Standards that limit?!

Now, I do not know if that information does not by lack of understanding of the history of WSG
or by logical fallacy but I feel more and more often say that ' total adherence to standards beyond' creativity * of the web designers' .


Whether told in no uncertain terms. This is incredible nonsense. Resting against

the guilt of having to resort to fix a number to display. png with alpha channel to that bug called IE walking, thus making it invalid code, is to confuse cause with effect. not using standards is that the web site has display issues in IE ergo standards ' limit' our work but we are forced to use fix because Microsoft does not adhere to the standards.

If you're not able to implement a Web UI without overdoing it and not taking into account the limitations of the software that will render the UI, is certainly not the fault of the WSG, but of those who believe that web design is 'graphic' and not build a common framework based on the spread of certain technologies its limits where the content can be exploited and used. And also, of course, the software house that they do not care because they seek shared standards lock-in and then try to limit as much as possible to use the medium of their technologies.

can be built very well with a fork handle distorted. Will surely be 'original'. But then it will be usable in the proper context? This is what we were trying to say elsewhere about the mindset and planning. The usability is the foundation web design because it takes into account, right now, the medium in which this design will live.

The work, over the years (those of you who remember the first battles back in 1998. Gasp! I am just old), the WSG and we have all done setting up the various pressure groups, raising a cloud of dust, calling the software houses accountable for their failures is of paramount importance, not only for the swarm of small business operators.

E 'capital interest to the customer. Usability, accessibility, adherence to standards ensures that what you want to communicate, the product you want to sell , to reach as many potential customers as possible and the medium that allows this transmission is fully godibile . Un cliente che chiude la finestra del browser perché non é riuscito ad orientarsi nel web site é un cliente perso. Un cliente perso é un cliente in meno sul libro contabile di fine anno .

Il web é business non galleria d'arte. Il business si nutre di clienti. I clienti sono, con varie periferiche , alla ricerca di informazioni. Le informazioni devono essere trovate dai clienti e presentate, su tutte le periferiche usate dai potenziali clienti , nel modo più usabile in modo da passare alla vie di fatto dell'acquisto (on line o off line, non importa).

Fino a prova contraria questo As one who has commissioned a web site wants above all else. The paint is required to attract the larks.

This is one of the aims of the WSG. Rather than be limited by non-systemic lock-in, put pressure on those responsible because they eliminate the limits fake (those having systemic unavoidable). Spreading the culture medium and not the far west of the 'maverick'. Increase awareness of ecosystem complex and intended to profoundly affect our way of experiencing life.

As one attempts to assert its expertise in web design if you see only the side without questioning the paint medium itself, its purpose, its history, its limitations and its potential?

But what the customer cares? One might ask.

But then as you pretend to assert a professional other than a simple click buttons, as the freelancer's typical customer sees this figure, if you show that your work is in direct fundamental relationship with the customer's business and not simply accessory, I say.

If you do not tell them, how do you learn about them? How can you call yourself experts in communication (Web) if you do not know to communicate your professionalism?
like trying to sell your services if you do not communicate what they can do to the potential customer? In short, this is the ABC of marketing!

What amazes me most of all this is that often comes from those who recently entered the business, from freelancers 'top coat' (no offense or value judgments, but simply refer to 'years of service' and to market dynamics) and that, therefore, would have every incentive to assert the specificity of this craft, his deep knowledge of the dynamics of the web of communication in the medium in question. Those of us whose expertise does not need to be confirmed and working with target clients are well aware that these things would have no need to defend their grounds.

Yet here we are do so.



* let alone a definition of 'creativity' but I will be allowed to argue that, under development even before construction of the mockup, it does not take long to find alternative routes, which often are original. Moreover, as mathematicians know, solving a problem is often more creative than just going at full speed. Often. in trying to overcome an obstacle, there are unexplored paths .

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Antenna Construction Don't Waste Your Money

In-car Internet. It will be usable?

It felt discussing for quite a while. Still in prototype stage to give a show and never made a product intended for consumption.

Finally there came In-Car Internal t Internet Auto.

BMW, Chrysler and others are already in production line.

After convergence devices, PDAs and friends, new challenges for Web UI Designer looming. How to design, implement User Interfaces for all 'In-Car Internet?

begin by saying that the very term ' Internet Auto ' hides a 'deception' as a reason to believe that Internet , as we know and how we are accustomed to use it, which is the same, without any residue , we're going to use in Auto .

is not so.

The car navigation, of course, is an experience not at all similar to the one dedicated we're used to. When we face our attention to a computer has a very specific focus and attention is focused on this (except, of course, the 'normal' side activities of perception) .

car, however, we are left with a perceptual field mainly occupied by main task (driving) which should be combined with at least two additional sub-tasks (surfing the Internet and view the contents) as much as possible usable and usable in two distinct senses:


  • not usable because very different from what the user expects from its cognitive background.

  • usable because the dashboard is certainly not a computer and has its specificity in the Web UI will have to adapt.

So a UI as amended, as required by the specifications of the new medium, but not too much to crowd out expectations.

How to design this UI so that the layout, tools, features, screens are contained in the dashboard without sacrificing the 'usability that, in this case, it would be inconvenient as well as from the point of view of compliance User and suicidal in terms of trade also dangerous in terms of primary safety ?

And again, what standards will be adopted?

blending These questions also for the head of the producers themselves who, in fact, are pushing to draw up specifications, obtain insurance, in short, they worry that their container has then an actual content to display and show it as the user expects from their previous experience .

Issues usability and accessibility too often confined to the tiny space that institutions and established business dedicated to the disabled (never admit it!), They acquire greater importance as technologies text-to- speech are available as a vehicle for dissemination in the range-car Internet. The combination of usability, accessibility, therefore, looms again as the main road leading to the content available in Internet alla fruizione degli utenti in nuove condizioni ambientali.

In-car Internet sarà un successo? Secondo gli analisti, si. Ma solo quando la Generazione Y sarà ascesa al trono .

Monday, May 19, 2008

Dcrhc40 Minidv Digital Great Home Cam

Full accessibility to the problem of

Cosa volete farci? Come un bravo cane di Pavlov , non resisto e quando parlano di accessibilità-usabilità mi infervoro e comincio a salivare (divento anche un tantinello rosso in volto. Non proprio questa bellezza a vedersi).
Se poi ad aprire le danze è semplicemente il caro* Semplice Mente , allora come si fa a resistere ?

Prologo semiserio a parte, é necessario we compare with these issues, you need to know about these vehicles, which will bring these needs in their daily workflow, made not only of code, but paint and relational mapping of perceptions, signs, expectations, goals of same background semiotic-cognitive effectiveness of GUI.

For tutorialino Photoshop and dashed 1px border there will always be time.


* forgive me confidence

Sunday, May 18, 2008

Spondylosis And Tennis Elbow

Accessibility Accessibility. Between saying and doing there is half of the bureaucracy ...

How commented a few days ago, all this emphasis on Stanca Law, accessibility, usability seems to have settled in Italy, as usual, in a bureaucratic second level is so determined to confirm that a good friend of mine said of a psychoanalyst.
latter is used to repeat, referring to a fundamental concept of Lacanian psychoanalysis that ' between saying and doing there is still the middle and say nothing the sea', meaning by this statement that between the expression of intent and the passage when there is a threshold that is pleased with mere symbol, self-raising by the implementation of what is stated. Field of the reference to sign.

I still remember the most common question I was asked by students immediate cloud of dust raised by the law Stanca . ' Quali campi dobbiamo riempire e quali pulsanti cliccare in Dreamwever per rendere il sito usabile ed accessibile? ’.
La domanda, per niente banale, rivelava un modus operandi, un approccio al problema, di cui la legge Stanca era semplicemente un segno posteriore, diffuso. Gli ‘operatori del settore’ pare abbiano confuso, insomma, i temi della accessibilità e della usabilità con la mera tecnicalia di title tag, links blu e quant’altro. Qualcosa da curare a website già implementato oppure, al massimo, di cui preoccuparsi in modo generico limitandosi alla verifica tecnica finale.

In verità, progettare un sito accessibile (ed usabile) richiede sforzo ed impegno sin the early stages of the project. Start with the first interviews with the client. He continued in the early stages of draft and continues step by step, until the publication of the online site. It is a mindset , not false technical aptitude. A fact 'cultural', a 'vision' rather than rules of thumb from the inside out by checking the list. Blindly follow these 'rules' (or guidelines, if you prefer) does not ensure the success of the project as follows word for word does not make us a recipe cooks by heart, and knowledge of a language dictionary does not guarantee the then know how to speak.

The attention to detail, passion for the cultural object preso in esame (l’intero suo campo semantico), la identificazione con bisogni altri da quelli di cui siamo portatori (un esercizio in umiltà), un attento studio del comportamento degli utenti target del sito, queste sono le pratiche da apprendere, diligentemente, ma, su tutto, da cui farci permeare.
Un designer è una spugna. Inessenziale, è ricettacolo di minuti dettagli che ad altri (i non designers) sfuggono.

Come già accaduto con la ISO 9000 e tutta la retorica sul controllo qualità, anche per quanto riguarda la accessibilità ciò che è rimasto dai discorsi, seminari e paroloni è un nugolo di terziario avanzato e bollini ad attestare l'aderenza ad una legge.

Now, as any sociologist knows even the first coat, one thing is the imposition of a law on a social gathering, another and different is the cultural adhesion, permeability dell'assembramento sponte its content and the cultural frame the law in question.

what happened is that ' site accessible ' is synonymous with the blue sticker pasted on the page, some testing of the well and better and, over all, no deep understanding of cultural dynamics in the ' accessibility is only a sign and not at the end .

typical example of malpractice Italian than merely the letter and never understand and make their why is the site vesuviana.it .

For those, the many, were not aware of what this Vesuvius, we give two words of two background.
Simply the most popular method to get from Naples to the whole province on the axis leading to the Sorrento peninsula. Means, you can imagine, the most used and from the premises and, importantly, by the tourists.

In footer of the site by a fine show if a statement which reads literally sponsored
Powered by the platform for accessible websites Nebula 2 of CRISMA Srl
A quick check shows that both the accessibility and the slogan is not sponsored in any way to match facts.



Play as the user types in search of information (very real role in what I'm looking for info on timetables and routes) and I go along.

The homepage is already visible in the mindset with which you will fight along the vector that separates it from that end to be achieved.



For what that ' [C] Search '?
And why so little space available to the search field when the cylinder head is there to occupy space with nothing inside? The
charms, can be found, it would be best left to their own personal website, where you can safely play the "creative". In a corporate website, which is the provision of its raison d'etre, it is necessary that all that is presented to the user and functional the reasons which prompted the latter to visit the site. The excessive redundancy
for which there are a 'search this site ' and a 'go ' does nothing but increase the perceptual noise . The field is identified in that position, as a field of research. There is no need to add more information. Instead of a 'go ' (where, then?) Use the pulsante per sottolineare l’azione che l’utente andrà a compiere. In breve:

  • Campo di ricerca
  • Pulsante con dicitura ‘ cerca ’.

In questo modo si sarebbe ottenuta maggiore pulizia con conseguente miglioramento della leggibilità della informazione presentata.

La domanda che immediatamente viene alla mente, osservando il primo row della testata, è ‘perché tutto così compresso quando vi è tutto questo spazio a disposizione?’

Il campo di ricerca è di dimensioni minuscole a maggior ragione se si pensa che la ricerca tipo del sito sarà di indicazioni on schedules and anything else that requires the inclusion of at least two terms (departure - arrival).
Having all the space available, why not give it to the search box in more than 10 columns that would give the user the ability to see what you typed thus reducing instances of bad typos? We then

an 'icon' which represents a link to the site map . This practice, widespread in Italy, is justified by a presumed increased usability of the site because the user can check the map to navigate. In truth, the best design is one that goes unnoticed and does not interfere il task che l’utente sta svolgendo . Se un sito delle minuscole dimensioni di www.circumvesuviana.it abbisogna di una mappa vuol solo dire che il designer non ha lavorato abbastanza per rendere la struttura del website trasparente ed intuitiva (noi, infatti consultiamo una mappa quando ci vogliamo orientare in un luogo a noi ignoto di cui sappiamo solo il punto di partenza e quello di arrivo. Guarda caso non consultiamo la mappa dei luoghi abituali. Il punto in questione è proprio questo. Rendere un website talmente usabile e consistente con le aspettative e, dunque, le abitudini percettive dell’utente da eliminare del tutto il bisogno di una mappa con la quale orientarsi . Rendere il website familiare.)

Ora, dato la spazio a disposizione, perché usare una ‘icona’ (usiamo le virgolette per rispetto del lavoro degli icon designer che non apprezzerebbero l’accostamento del loro lavoro con questa ‘cosa’). Usare testo invece di una immagine avrebbe dato immediato feedback.
Abbiamo poi un ‘icona’ di ‘ info ’. Quest’ultima presenza è incomprensibile e segnala una gestione degli spazi confusa e non task oriented . Perché un link alla sezione ‘ info ’ nello spazio dedicato alla ricerca del sito? Dove è la consistenza della informazione? E' come se, sulla scatola dei biscotti, sotto la voce ingredienti trovaste information of the corporate brand.

surprising then the management of space and landing pages that are not filled with anything except to reiterate what is already visible in the menu.



fly over on technical details such as the non-alignment of some page elements that do not report the full test of the site on other browsers from IE6. Why then in the usual camping footer iconetta XHTML validation is a mystery.

Trying to do a search, we found the usual layout change that is to be charged to the laziness of the developers and the fact that, in all likelihood, the webdesigner had gone on vacation.




Note the link ' new search ' position abstruse.
But you have filled in the page of 'loading results'.



all wrong here. Everything. From note the irony of that icon of validation.
And it does not work the loader, the permanence after loading data is sad to see the confusion and increase the collection.



Other notes would still be moved to the site in question is not really useful to anyone maramaldeggiare.

Accessibility. Another term to be put on the list of certifications to be obtained or the labels to stick.
Accessibility. Another term to spend so bombastic PCB customers. Accessibility
as distinguished from usability.
But it is possible to an accessible site that is not first usable?