Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
Yet here you are pushing for a front page for Authors
that has major usability problems, and you seem to be totally unaware of
that.
Listen, there's no need to treat me like I don't give a hoot about the
page visitor. I've been working day and night all week and I've made
every effort to make this page usable. I don't see YOU proposing a lot
of page designs. When I participated in the OOo front page discussion I
made several specific page samples and I discussed pros and cons with
*specifity* instead of just saying "this is crap, you don't care about
usability" and not explaining what's wrong or offering a solution.
I felt that this page ranked very high on usability. Quoting the same
book you listed, "it doesn't matter how many clicks I have to make as
long as each one is simple and mindless". You reach a page that had
language links. It's obvisous what to do with it, because the page
doesn't let you do much with it. You just click on a language you
understand. When you see a page with nothing but an "Enter" link, you
know what to click on. And you seem to forget that the people with
graphics off is a very small proportion of page visitors. I have paid
attention to alt fields to make sure that blind people on screen readers
can access the page. But you are still convinced that I haven't paid
attention to usability, but of course you don't offer any alternatives.
It's easy to sit on the sideline and shoot down ideas. It's hard to make
pages and propose them as alternatives. I've spent countless hours doing
this, and I've tried very hard to satisfy everyone.
Daniel.
- Re: [authors] Alternate page ready. Daniel Carrera
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