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From: Kitzzy Aviles
Date: Oct 31, 2004 6:04AM

Hello,

Thank you for your email. I am currently away from the office and will
answer your email upon my return on Monday, November 8, 2004. If you
need immediate assistance, contact the main CDWS number at 407-823-3718.


Thank you,
Kitzzy Aviles

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WebAIM Discussion List Digest 31.10.2004.
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Subject: Re: Web accessibility and usability
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 12:47:47 -0600

Andrew,

While reviewing www.w3.org/WAI/bcase/benefits.html that you suggested, I
came across a very helpful table that summarizes checkpoints that
contribute to different design categories including: usability, public
search engine, low bandwidth, support low literacy, and semantic web.

Checkpoint 1.1 Provide text equivalent for non-text element was listed
as contributing to usability, and other categories including public
search engine and low bandwidth.

I can understand how "alt" attributes benefit search engine results and
users with low bandwidth, but I wasn't clear on how it is important for
usability for people without disabilities. Does anyone have opinions on
this?

It is my hope to demonstrate that accessibility efforts also improve the
experience of users without disabilities. I'm planning to do some
usability tests with visually impaired users and then users without
disabilities.

Would anyone anticipate the presence of "alt" as improving the
experience of users without disabilities (in terms of any of the metrics
noted on UsableNet: time, number of errors, success rate, and subjective
rating)?

Thank you very much for any help that you can offer.

Regards,
Annmarie




----- Original Message -----
From: Andrew Arch
Date: Sunday, October 10, 2004 6:33 am
Subject: RE: [WebAIM] Web accessibility and usability

> Hi Annmarie,
>
> Don't know of any formal studies (apart from the
> Microsoft/Forrester one),
> but many people have written articles on this topic. E.g.:
> 1.
> www.webcredible.co.uk/user-friendly-resources/web-
> accessibility/web-accessib
> ility-usability.shtml
> 2. www.w3.org/WAI/bcase/benefits.html
> 3. http://www.uiaccess.com/upa2000a.html
> 4. http://ausweb.scu.edu.au/aw02/papers/refereed/arch/index.html
> 5. http://www.frontend.com/accessibility_paper.html#Usability
>
> Andrew
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