> -----Original Message----- > From: Donna Maurer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 4 August 2005 2:15 PM > To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org > Subject: RE: [WSG] New front page for http://abc.net.au/ > > On 4 Aug 2005 at 13:55, Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Me wrote: > > Your learnings entirely reflect my experiences usability > testing with people without an > impairment, so I'd take the comments as general usability > issues, not particular issues > for people with a hearing impairment. >
Oh, I completely agree. I guess we can say that dropdowns can improve the usability of a website for a certain group of people. As a general question though (independent to any kinds of impairment): are dropdowns especially useful for people that are more visual? If we think about it, dropdowns are very much a different form of sitemap. And one of the main reasons we create sitemaps is to provide a visual presentation of the Information Architecture. Something that would be a very interesting test: put a group of designers onto a website and a group of engineers. What navigation items do each of them use? Will the designers go for the dropdown menus and sitemap, while the engineers go for the search engine or standard navigation? :) ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
