[Air-L] social change?

[Radhika]

Tracy,

Thankyou!

I will check your blog and look fwd to more discussion either on or off list.

More soon.
R

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On Jul 28, 2012, at 9:40 PM, bytetime <bytetime at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all
> 
> As part of my work, I routinely work with web developers and go to many
> industry related gab fests, where usability and accessibility is a key
> issue, especially in complying with recommendations with the  Web
> Transition Strategy , where all Australian government websites have to be
> WCAG2 AA compliant by the end of 2012.
> 
> I agree with Radhika's comments. The challenge of determining whether
> written content is accessible and understandable has been a huge part of
> the challenge of my work with livinggreener.gov.au - a site built using UCD
> principles and designed to foster sustainable behaviour change. A big focus
> in the conception of the project was effectively delivering the
> sustainability message - as research revealed that the average science
> understanding of the Australian public was around year 5, or 10 years of
> age.
> 
> There are many ways you can test the usability of the interface with
> analytics and surveys, but to get to whether people understand the written
> content requires a deeper inquiry into their information needs and if they
> have been met. We have used detailed surveys in the past focused on the
> written content in conjunction with usability testing and user feedback to
> determine site enhancements and improvements. This has worked quite well
> for us.
> 
> If you are interested, here is a recent blog post about
> Drupal<http://mediakult.wordpress.com/2012/07/28/how-can-government-innovate-with-drupal/>that
> touches on the challenge of content. Personally, I think there are
> ways to many ways to deal with the usability and accessibility of an
> interface - accessibility of content needs to be addressed quite
> differently. Usable design attract audiences, targeted, appropriate content
> will keep them there long and bring them back next time.
> 
> 
> Tracey
> 
> On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 8:42 AM, André Brock <andre.brock at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> via Radhika:
>> 
>>     I find many usability surveys that test for how the interface is
>> usable or
>>     not - but they dont necessarily test for the effectiveness of content
>> in
>>     relation to conveying the social change and advocacy part …
>> 
>> This describes information science in a nutshell.  Can i steal?
>> 
>> André
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