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World Usability Day – 14 November

World Usability Day - 14 November

World usability day is sneaking up on us quickly. What will you be doing on Tuesday, November 14th 2006? Well, if you are in the Nottinghamshire area, why not pop on over to the University of Nottingham and attend the usability presentations that are taking place at the Jubilee Campus. (One of my favourite usability guru’s, David Travis from his London Consultancy, User Focus is speaking; so I highly recommend it!) If you want to find an event in your area pop on over to the World Usability Day website and browse the events taking place across the globe!
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We’re in 2006 guys not 199x!

Just recently, I have come across *so* many inaccessible and invalid websites that I just had to write about it. I am shocked and totally disappointed. Maybe I shouldn’t be, but to be honest I am… I really am. In particular, the ones that get my goat are the web companies that are shouting things like “latest in web design technology? “with built-in accessibility? “usability best practice?. I am so disappointed. I hope I just had a bad week of viewing source code too many times and it just so happened to be the bad ones. So many code-bloated, table-based, html 4 (some with no doc type at all) websites. Tut tut… :( Read the rest of this entry »

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