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http://www.standards-schmandards.com/?2005/09/09/24-measuring-text-readability I discovered that my first post about the Fangs Screen reader emulator add-on was posted on November 22 in 2004. That is more than five years ago. At that time Mozilla hosting for add-ons was pretty rough and I couldn’t work out how to release updates. Alas, I hosted the add-on and updates on my [...]

Methods for measuring text readability - Standards-schmandards

Jon Udell: Aunt Tillie's OS X adventure

March 23, 2012 - Bring your own device is still a grassroots rebellion for many companies, but it could be the future of the enterprise desktop http://www.infoworld.com/blogs
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Hypertext Style: Cool URIs don't change.

In theory, the domain name space owner owns the domain name space and therefore all URIs in it. Except insolvency, nothing prevents the domain name owner from keeping the name. And in theory the URI space under your domain name is totally under your control, so you can make it as stable as you like. Pretty much the only good reason for a document to disappear from the Web is that the company which owned the domain name went out of business or can no longer afford to keep the server running.

Usability Reports, User Research, and Design Guidelines by Nielsen Norman Group

http://www.nngroup.com/reports/ Research testing 1,277 websites and intranets (plus 362 emails and 292 social media postings) with 1,973 users in 14 countries (mainly USA, Canada, UK, and Australia, but also studies in Denmark, Finland, Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, Japan, Netherlands, Romania, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates). Sector-specific case studies: financial services, technology , knowledge-intensive organizations, industrial/manufacturing , retail , government agencies