Blog Styling and Readability
Page organization and styling decisions on your blog can affect whether or not your message gets heard. Here are a couple of examples of how reformers are using social media - one that's highly readable with good styling decisions - and one that's pretty bad.
The good - Beth's Blog is packed with good information. Its page elements are organized in a straight forward, vertical style. Its styling is easy on the eyes and mind and easy to read. It is also clear and simple enough that it will be accessbile to readers with visual or learning disabilities and the specialized software applications that asssist them.
The bad - Net Squared is a blog that's also packed with good info. But its page organization is so jumbled, and its look and feel so overstyled, that the actual content is almost unreadable to even the most able of readers. Moreover, neither people with disabilities nor their assistive software could possibly crack this.
Moral of the story: organization of page elements and decisions about styling matter in making the content of your web products accessible. And easy access is critical to web success.
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Posted by: Doan | April 2, 2008 11:46 AM