On 10/4/05, Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Somebody pointed out this article by our friend Jakob Nielsen to me: > http://www.useit.com/alertbox/designmistakes.html
I'm not one of Jakob's fans... but in my limited experience, text size is one of the few things that annoy people so much they actually complain. I've been involved with the Perth International Arts Festival site for the past four years and the most common recurring complaint we've had is "the text is too small". Of course, after explaining how font-size adjustment works and explaining to people they've probably accidentally held down ctrl while scrolling their mouse wheel in IE, that problem goes away (and the user often thanks us for educating them on that feature). Almost every other complaint - and there are not all that many - are people commenting on the actual content not meeting their needs, or to do with linked sites we have no control over - in other words, nothing to do with the construction or implementation of the site itself. I think Jakob is probably quite spot on in this case. -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.zombiecoder.com/ ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
