Usability Quote of the Day

May 23, 2012

There's something very odd going on here. If designers made completely unrealistic assumptions about the physical world when designing technology, then we would blame them (and likely sue them) for technical incompetence. Yet when they make grossly unrealistic assumptions about human nature... we don't blame the designers, we blame the unfortunate people who are just trying to do what the design requires. -- Kim Vicente, The Human Factor, p. 45.    (via interaction-design.org)

Thursday, September 15, 2005

Launch of Web Accessibility Tool Consortium

Implementing tools for an international accessibility standard ...

"Today organisations representing four continents announced the official launch of the Web Accessibility Tool Consortium - WAT-C. The new consortium is developing a series of browser-based web accessibility analysis tools under a general public license agreement.

"By harnessing the passion, knowledge, and creativity of this international group of web accessibility practitioners," stated Steven Faulkner WAT-C founder, "We have a unique opportunity to provide tools to promote the understanding and development of an accessible web."

The consortium will promote and pursue software development goals including:
- Free web accessibility testing software,
- Enhanced development of existing web accessibility testing tools
- The internationalization of web accessibility testing software"   continued ...   (Via wg)

WAT-C - User Interface Design, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Ergonomics

International tools for accessibility.

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