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Maximum Accessibility: Making Your Web Site More Usable for Everyone
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Maximum Accessibility: Making Your Web Site More Usable for Everyone

by Ph.D. John M. Slatin, Sharron Rush
September 2002
Intermediate to advanced
640 pages
11h 9m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Text Description as a Design Element

Despite the problems we encountered while visiting the Metropolitan Museum site, the use of text as an important element in the site’s visual and conceptual design is worth considering here. The Metropolitan Museum used informative text very effectively as a design element, rather than hiding it or throwing it away. Let’s revisit these pages with that in mind.

A page we discussed at length in Chapter 7 presents a highlight of the Metropolitan Museum’s vast collection of illuminated manuscripts. On this page, an onscreen caption provides useful information about the manuscript and its creator; this is presumably catalog copy. But there’s more. An extended description is available on the same page, providing ...

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