Veel webmasters en developers zijn inmiddels wel bekend met de 16 basis-toegankelijkheidsrichtlijnen van het W3C, in Nederland beter bekend als het waarmerk Drempelvrij. Derek Featherstone, een autoriteit op het gebied van webtoegankelijkheid, gaf vorige week op de IA Summit 2007 een workshop voor ‘gevorderden’. Featherstone had veel praktijkvoorbeelden en goede tips, die ik hier graag deel. In een aantal gevallen gaat het om zaken die technisch gezien wel toegankelijk zijn, maar toch onwerkbaar zijn voor bepaalde groepen gebruikers.

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Vraag: Wat hebben de onderstaande bouwwerken met elkaar gemeen?

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This year’s IA Summit (22-26 March, Las Vegas) is all about ‘rich’: rich information, rich interaction and rich relationships. Even though my session proposal (on the Knowledge Browser concept) was not accepted, I’m looking forward to gain new inspiration from the conference sessions and meeting fellow IA’s.

My focus will be on three topics: findability (search), RIA and documenting (again: RIA). During the summit I intend to blog on the most interesting things per day.

Are you going to the IA Summit? See you next month!

Yesterday we threw a roof party to celebrate our new office in Second Life.

Thanks to Maurice and Richard, our roof was fully redecorated to accommate the party. We had a video wall, a barbecue, beer, some picknick tables, a magic disco ball, a dance floor, and last but not least: our own t-shirts. (more…)

Tomorrow, Friday 10 November, we celebrate the opening of Tam Tam’s new (virtual) office in Second Life! Join our cocktail hour from 16:30 - 17:30 (Amsterdam time, GMT +1).

The quickest way to find our office is to ‘teleport’ to the location. (more…)

The last two workshops I have attended on the UI11 Conference were both by Joshua Porter. The first one covers ‘social web applications’, the second “Is tagging right for your site?”. (more…)

Today, on the last day of the UI11 Conference, we have seen a terrific keynote by Barry Schwartz, Professor of Social Theory and Social Action and author of the book ‘The Paradox of Choice – Why Less Is More’. It is by far the most usable keynote in my experience. Here is a selection of my notes.

We have always assumed that more freedom means more welfare. And we consider the ability make our own choices a key factor of freedom. So, more choice means more welfare. Or at least, this is how we think the world works. The business world has been acting upon this for many years and the public sector has been into this as well. Just look at the choices in the supermarket (cookies, desserts, toothpaste etc.).

Choice is good. But the problem is that we think that is only good. There is more choice than we need. There are three effects of having too much choice: (more…)

Today’s full-day workshop at UI11 Conference is an in-depth course by Rolf Molich on all aspects regarding usability testing. Naturally I can’t give all Rolfs tips and tricks; it’s his course after all. But I will share some of the highlights. (more…)

The second UI11 Conference day featured five rounds of 90 minute talks. Here is my impression of the day. (more…)

So far, none of the talks I attended on AJAX and RIAs (Rich Internet Applications) ever got past “What is AJAX?” and showcasing one or two examples. Luckily, today’s full-day workshop on the first day of the UI11 Conference in Boston covered that within the hour and went ahead. (more…)