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From: Rama
Date: Oct 11, 2004 4:27AM

dear friends

i am a new member in this group.

my point of joining this group is quite simple since my reseach areas of
intrest is web usability.

so can any one of you could suggest me a good concrete area inorder to
persuade my research (PHD)

looking farward for all your suggessions

thanks
rama

----- Original Message -----
From: "michael.brockington"
To: "WebAIM Discussion List"
Sent: Monday, October 11, 2004 6:22 PM
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Web accessibility and usability


>
> > As for the usefulness of such a study, I'd say yes...anything that can
> > help convince decision makers to invest in accessibility would be a good
> thing.
>
> I think that you are jumping to conclusions there - I don't mean to be
> awkward, but occasionaly adding accessibility has meant (for me)
sacrificing
> usability a little, and I suspect that any un-biased report would have to
say
> the same thing. (Does anyone think that the previously mentioned Microsoft
> Report was un-biased? Is any MS Report ever unbiased?)
> The most obvious example that I can think of was a recent discussion about
> providing documents in multiple formats. The best way of doing this in a
> visual browser is to do:
>
> Extremely_long_document_title: (Word Format) (PDF Format)
> Official_Reports_Always_Have_long_names: (Word Format) (PDF Format)
>
> But this conflicts with accessibility since all of the links have the same
> name. I don't know which solutions people use, but (by definition) any
> accessible solution will be less usable.
>
> Mike
>
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