“Just how important is usability in e-learning? We ask usablity guru Jakob Nielsen on this and other wide-ranging issues. ‘…given that people are just not willing to read so much — I think it leads to a completely different approach to learning on a computer than learning in a traditional environment.’”

“Paris 1968. Pent-up anger and frustration over poverty, unemployment and the conservative government of General Charles de Gaulle, gave rise to a mass movement for sweeping social change. In the month of May, workers and students took to the streets in an unprecedented wave of strikes, walkouts and demonstrations. By May 18th, 10 million workers were on strike and all factories and universities were occupied. During those days of turmoil the ATELIER POPULAIRE (Popular Workshop) was formed. The faculty and student body of the Ecole des Beaux Arts were on strike, and a number of the students met spontaneously in the lithographic department to produce the first poster of the revolt, ‘Usines, Universites, Union.’”

“Just how important is usability in e-learning? We ask usablity guru Jakob Nielsen on this and other wide-ranging issues. ‘…given that people are just not willing to read so much — I think it leads to a completely different approach to learning on a computer than learning in a traditional environment.’”

“The concept of language errors is a fuzzy one. I’ll leave to linguists the technical definitions. Here we’re concerned only with deviations from the standard use of English as judged by sophisticated users such as professional writers, editors, teachers, and literate executives and personnel officers. The aim of this site is to help you avoid low grades, lost employment opportunities, lost business, and titters of amusement at the way you write or speak.”

“Paris 1968. Pent-up anger and frustration over poverty, unemployment and the conservative government of General Charles de Gaulle, gave rise to a mass movement for sweeping social change. In the month of May, workers and students took to the streets in an unprecedented wave of strikes, walkouts and demonstrations. By May 18th, 10 million workers were on strike and all factories and universities were occupied. During those days of turmoil the ATELIER POPULAIRE (Popular Workshop) was formed. The faculty and student body of the Ecole des Beaux Arts were on strike, and a number of the students met spontaneously in the lithographic department to produce the first poster of the revolt, ‘Usines, Universites, Union.’”

“CSS is another core standard that most designers seem to avoid, or use badly. Many designers avoid CSS because they think that this will mean better support for older browsers — never mind that they also tend to be the same folk with 100 dancing JavaScripts that break early browsers. The progress of CSS has been so slow that last November, CNet site Builder.com revamped a 1997 column on the subject and reposted it like it was fresh information.”

“A Weblog of articles and sites dealing with the topic of Web accessibility” put together by Joe Clark.