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Posted by JDS on 05/08/06 02:10
On Sun, 07 May 2006 20:19:27 +0000, Michael Laplante wrote:
> So what are your thoughts? At what point do YOU decide how a site should
> look rather than leaving it to a user? How much do you compromise
> accessibility for design considerations such as layout, graphics, etc.?
I really think that the core target audience in mind for any particular
site should dictate style, layout, and design. You should try as much as
possible to provide acceptable "accesibility" for all sites, but a site
targeted to the Knitters of North Ontario, which group you know only has
five members, and of which only two have a computer, and of those two,
neither is disabled in any way, (i.e. an extremely limited and well
known audience) differs greatly in its design needs from a site targeting
18-24 y.o. males in the general population to sell them XtremE Ice Dipperz
cereal, (i.e. a limited target audience, but relatively unknown in its
actual composition) or the site that is hoping to provide general
information on how to get your taxes done (i.e. a large, general audience).
The audience should dictate the design *needs*, not the design.
Just my opinion, of course.
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