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From: Stephan Wehner
Date: Fri, Oct 28 2011 4:42PM
Subject: 2D displays
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How do you rate accessibility of the (interactive) 2D display at
http://www.music-map.com/sandra.html ?
Can it be improved?
I'm not affliliated with the site, but want to make a similar display,
where similar items are placed close to each other.
Stephan
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From: Angela French
Date: Fri, Oct 28 2011 4:51PM
Subject: Re: 2D displays
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I can't comment on accessibility, but I can't stand moving "tag clouds". For what it's worth, this 53-year old feel like she's chasing things around and finds it hard on my eyes to try to focus on moving text. So there may be usability issues to consider as well.
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>How do you rate accessibility of the (interactive) 2D display at
>
>http://www.music-map.com/sandra.html ?
>
>Can it be improved?
>
>I'm not affliliated with the site, but want to make a similar display, where
>similar items are placed close to each other.
>
>Stephan
>
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>Stephan Wehner
>
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From: Chris Heilmann
Date: Fri, Oct 28 2011 4:57PM
Subject: Re: 2D displays
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On 28/10/2011 23:40, Stephan Wehner wrote:
> How do you rate accessibility of the (interactive) 2D display at
>
> http://www.music-map.com/sandra.html ?
>
> Can it be improved?
>
> I'm not affliliated with the site, but want to make a similar display,
> where similar items are placed close to each other.
>
> Stephan
>
Well, for starters you use tables for the main layout of the page, that
can be quite a pain to navigate with assistive technology.
The names of the bands are links with no separators but whitespace.
Seeing that they are ordered, they should be in an ordered list - then
they would also make sense when the DHTML script doesn't work.
As it stands, this interface can be confusing and annoying, especially
as there are no lines between the connected bands.
In essence, this was impressive in 2001 when DHTML came out, but by now
it should assist the organisation of the data, not just move around and
make you chase it.
From: Nancy Johnson
Date: Mon, Oct 31 2011 6:51AM
Subject: Re: 2D displays
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I have a stigmatism both eyes.... Its not easy for me to look at...
I have difficulty following
Nancy
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 6:55 PM, Chris Heilmann < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> On 28/10/2011 23:40, Stephan Wehner wrote:
>> How do you rate accessibility of the (interactive) 2D display at
>>
>> http://www.music-map.com/sandra.html ?
>>
>> Can it be improved?
>>
>> I'm not affliliated with the site, but want to make a similar display,
>> where similar items are placed close to each other.
>>
>> Stephan
>>
> Well, for starters you use tables for the main layout of the page, that
> can be quite a pain to navigate with assistive technology.
>
> The names of the bands are links with no separators but whitespace.
> Seeing that they are ordered, they should be in an ordered list - then
> they would also make sense when the DHTML script doesn't work.
>
> As it stands, this interface can be confusing and annoying, especially
> as there are no lines between the connected bands.
>
> In essence, this was impressive in 2001 when DHTML came out, but by now
> it should assist the organisation of the data, not just move around and
> make you chase it.
>
>