Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media] wrote: > Exactly. So for something to go onto the Top Ten List of Usability Mistakes > for the general public it must be something that bugs them so much that they > don't want to adjust to it. Is small font size one of them? I think most > people adjust to it, even if they don't like it.
Why do you insist on making this that they don't like something they need to do? I adjusted for my aging vision by discontinuing my newspaper subscription. I didn't want to, but I had to. Now I read the web instead, where I have some considerable power to overcome tiny text. If you make it too difficult, I exercise the subscription cancellation counterpart, the back button, and never see your painful site again. At the very least, if I manage to determine somehow that your content is compelling, I simply turn off your styles completely. > Major Usability Issues users cannot adjust to are: > - Missing Information > - Incorrect Information > - Catastrophic Navigation > - Websites that don't work > - ... Fundamental to your last item is legibility, which brings focus right back to text size. The next last is just a subset of the last. The first two are about content, which can't be fixed by anything you'll find among web standards. -- "Be quick to listen, slow to speak." James 1:19 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/auth/ ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
