Wow - big topic.
I'm in agreement with you on the title attribute and here are my pet
peeves from sites I have visited today:
1. Poor forms markup - especially not explicitly associating labels
with controls. The worst case: using an empty label in an obvious
attempt to pass a validator test (e.g. http://www.med.govt.nz).
2. Verbose title attributes that don't offer anything more than the
link text. Worst case "Go to link text" (e.g. http://www.odi.govt.nz).
3. Using the summary attribute on layout tables. (e.g. http://
www.studylink.govt.nz/)
4. One skip link over a deeply nested long, long, long list of links
(e.g. http://www.community.net.nz/ and most other I mention).
5. Navigation links surrounding a bunch of spacer gifs, supposedly to
aid screen reader users, that more or less duplicate the navigation
that immediately follows it. (e.g. http://www.liac.org.nz/)
6. As above but with verbose link text. For the love of Brian, don't
use the words "Go to", or "Click" in links - it's obvious, OK?
7. Ambiguous link text - with a rebel yell, she cried more, more,
more - great chorus, lousy for navigating (e.g http://
www.nzqa.govt.nz/).
8. Drop down menus on websites (see many above). If you want to
impress me with your card sorting skills, give me one link to your
site map.
9. tables for layout - c'mon it's 2006!
10. forms require scripts to work.
kind regards
Terrence Wood.
On 5/09/2006, at 10:46 AM, Mike at Green-Beast.com wrote:
Hello Group,
I wrote an article [1] in which I mention something I feel is a site
usability mistake and I'm soliciting the opinions of others. Please
feel
free to lend me your thoughts and insights, or tell me about your
pet peeves
(you, too, Felix... it's an opportunity to state your case as well).
[1] http://green-beast.com/blog/?p=116
Respectfully,
Mike Cherim
http://green-beast.com/
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