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Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:17:43 +0000

[...] A bit more about her: she co-authored the O’Reilly book “Universal Design for Web Applications” and I worked at the W3C for 6 years. She currently splits her time between the UW and consulting. For even more, including a link to her stint as Wonder Woman: http://sp1ral.com/about/ [...]

By: Scott Rains

Scott Rains — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:28:19 +0000

Wendy,

I saw the post on you in the PI today. We’re drawing together some UD folks to advise around the Rio 2016 Games and a few other major sports events. Let me know if this interests you.

Scott Rains

By: wendy

wendy — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:15:35 +0000

Rob: Sorry it took me so long to comment.

I’m glad you like the interview. We don’t specifically cover information retrieval and organization in the book, except that using principles of universal design usually makes information easier to find with search engines.

Mnemonic assistants are likely to help everyone and in that case are good universal design. This is what I like about universal design, oftentimes when you design to make something easier to use or easier to understand for a particular population, it often makes it easier to use or understand for everyone.

So, if you end up using some mnemonic devices on your site, let me know. It would be interesting to see if more people find it easier to use.

By: Rob

Rob — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 21:28:10 +0000

Hi,

Heard your interview on KUOW on 7-25-09 and it was good to hear this topic being discussed. Regarding your book, I was wondering if, along with the Universal Design topics, do you cover the area of information management? One thing I’ve noticed with our aging population is the difficulty of finding things on their computers. They may be able to navigate a site just fine, but when it comes to information retrieval and organization, this becomes a serious issue (perhaps memory loss, etc.). Setting up mnemonic assistants or similar seems it would be part of a good accessibility design.

Your thoughts appreciated,
Rob

By: yoni

yoni — Sat, 30 May 2009 15:57:02 +0000

hey wendy -
this is yoni.. remember me from the trace research center? i went by the name of john for ease of use there and now its been like 10 years and i just wanted to say hi! i’m in nyc doing both academic and web/graphic design stuff… hope you’re well, looks like your investment in good content and design continues.
cheers

By: wendy

wendy — Mon, 11 May 2009 20:41:33 +0000

Bill,

I’m glad you’re enjoying the book.

I just published Open source menus and code on the ud4wa site. This gives pointers to the YUI and Dojo libraries–which are far more comprehensive than anything we could write on our own.

Thank you,
–wendy

By: Bill Shackleton

Bill Shackleton — Fri, 08 May 2009 20:10:08 +0000

Hi Wendy,

Thanks for this book. I’m enjoying the read.

I’ve a question, however. On page 101, you write: “If you can live with UDM4’s licensing regime, it’s a good product and can save you a lot of time. But [...] So we wrote an open source menu script of our own, which you can download at http://ud4wa.com.”

I’ve looked for this menu script both on ud4wa.com and the book’s O’Reilly site but to no avail.

Can you please point me to where this script can be downloaded

Thanks a lot
Bill