RE: Spam: SPAM-LOW: Re: FN-FORUM: Opinions on W3C validator

date posted 24th September 2007 12:42

I agree with Gary!

Its like Health & Fitness! You can be one without the other, but ideally =
you
should have both together.

Usability is the fit for purpose status of a item. It scares me that a
'proffessional' is asking for a definition. I suggest you go read about =
a
guy called Jakob Nielsen.

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On 24 Sep 2007 11:51:21 -0000, Tony Crockford wrote
> how does your use of the term usability differ from accessibility?
> and in what way would a standards compliant site not be usable?

Take one fully standards compliant accessible web site currently used by =

office based sales staff. Everything is working perfectly and has been =
for=20
months. Now load it on a laptop and give it to field based sales staff.=20
Since the application (without changes) has no facility for them to =
merge=20
their local database changes with the main sales database, when they =
return=20
to the office, the web app they are using is standards compliant and=20
accessible but is of no use to them whatsoever and so fails usability.

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Gary Short
http://www.garyshort.org


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