http://www.librarian.net putting the rarin back in librarian since 1999 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:37:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.librarian.net/stax/1270/serving-lower-literacy-users-through-effective-web-design/ http://www.librarian.net/stax/1270/serving-lower-literacy-users-through-effective-web-design/#comments Sun, 24 Apr 2005 19:59:07 +0000 jessamyn http://www.librarian.net/stax/1270 Low-literacy users have different online behaviors than high-literacy users. They don’t scan, they read. It’s easier for them to miss important information that is outside of the normal text-areas. The good news? it’s easy to improve usability for low-literacy users without compromising the effectiveness of web sites for higher-literacy users. Read more at Jakob Nielsen’s excellent usability site, Alertbox, which also has good tips on usability for seniors.

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