Archive for category: Research

Reviews and critiques of published research

Kevin Larson: ‘Better than a poke in the eye’    (2007.09.16)

Presentation by Kevin Larson: What exactly is eye fatigue?

Design-research roundup    (2007.08.27)

Summarizing a few design research papers (not an oxymoron) I have read recently

Accessibility research at W4A 2007    (2007.05.04)

Highlights of some papers from the Banff conference

What happens to gay researchers    (2007.04.17)

Sometimes they die unexpectedly at age 38

Usability benefits of Web accessibility    (2007.03.01)

We now have another research paper demonstrating that a Web site that meets accessibility guidelines is more usable by nondisabled people

Qualitative vs. quantitative    (2006.07.09)

Ideas for measuring accessibility

‘Ckear Print’    (2006.07.07)

The CNIB (sorry, “cnib”) muffs it yet again, this time with published guidelines on making print accessible

Even academics can’t understand it    (2006.06.10)

An academic paper reviewing WCAG 2 on the basis of communication theory finds almost nothing to write home about, as it were

‘Chix with Stix’ redux    (2006.02.13)

Joe does Freakonomics™ to show that some elite women hockey players are big enough for the NHL