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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Jan 10, 2006 5:40PM

Christian Heilmann wrote:

> I'd like to see some usability testing with elderly people on those
> things. Actually it shouldn't be hard to write one that keeps metrics
> of how many people _really_ used them. I guess after substracting the
> 90% web designers who want to see how it works and if they used the
> one at alistapart or an own one you'll get the real number.

Then get the same number of users, but provide them with a browser that
has the built-in text size widget showing (e.g. in IE, View > Toolbars >
Customize... and add the size button; in Firefox, something like my
"text size toolbar"
<https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&id=472>)
and give them a 3 second "you can use this to make text bigger or
smaller to suit you"...and then send them to those sites again and see
what happens.

After that, send the two groups to different sites with notoriously
small font sizes and record their thoughts...

P
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Patrick H. Lauke
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