Sent by andy on 30 July 2003 09:09
I used to work in a web-agency, we always had our parents test new projects,
if they could use it, the site worked.
the thing with having relatives and friends testing is that they most often
don't test 'hard enough' or 'deep enough'. if you've got a team of testers
determined to break your system, they _will_ find the bugs.
/A
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Crockford" [EMAIL-REMOVED]>
To: "General@Maccaws. Org" [EMAIL-REMOVED]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 9:47 AM
Subject: [maccaws general] Civil servants' families could test government
websites
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/32023.html
interesting article reporting how the UK government suggests that user
testing need not be the domain of specialists.
it seems the report 'Quality Framework for UK Government Website Design'
also has this to say about accessibility:
"Guidelines are not standards. For example, if one were to adhere
strictly to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Accessibility Initiative
guidelines cited in the document, one would be building an unusable,
perhaps even inaccessible, site. Some of the W3C guidelines suggest the
use of features that are either inconsistently supported across browsers
and assistive technology, such as access keys, or are not found to be
entirely helpful by the user group they purport to help, such as tab
indexing."
discuss?
