You might also consider how much value the user will get from enlarging pictures. Having the ability to enlarge pictures on a site does not necessarily mean every visitor will want to use the functionality, or on every photo. I would weigh the benefit of clearly identifying pictures that can be enlarged against the risk of cluttering the page highlighting a feature that may only be used occasionally.
In particular, considering people using screen-readers...a certain percentage of them may be blind, and they may require (at most) a description of the image to put it in context with the article you're displaying. Guess it depends on your site's purpose. If it's a photo-sharing web site, you might have a note at the top of each page indicating that each picture can be enlarged by clicking on it, then a hover-over reminder of same. If it's a news-based web site, you might just use the hover-over, on the principle that folks are there for more than just picture-browsing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=44993 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
