In the old days, many developers looked at complex websites and web applications as a series of individual pages. These days, it’s all about abstracting these pages down to re-usable elements, modules and components which are then documented, designed and built as comprehensive pattern libraries. Pattern libraries can be used as an integral part of the UX, design and front-end development phases. But where should accessibility be included in these different types of pattern libraries? Come on a journey as we explore the pain and glory of baking accessibility into UX, design and front-end pattern libraries.
How do you know if your web site is accessible? Can automated testing tools help? Glenda Sims will share gems from her 10+ years of experience testing sites for accessibility. Equip yourself with free and powerful testing tools. Learn how to turn it up a notch when you need to monitor accessibility across a vast enterprise. See some of the very latest testing tools that will help you evaluate color contrast, dynamic content and WAI-ARIA compliance
5 free tools for web accessibility testingJohn McNabb
This presentation is a walkthrough of 5 tools which complement each other and can be used in combination to thoroughly test a web site. This is a balanced system of testing for WCAG guidelines, and for issues which must be experienced from a user’s point of view.
Web access for users with disabilities is an important goal and challenging problem for web content developers and designers.
Essential open source api projects to ease the developing & testing for web accessibility.
Practical tools for Web Accessibility testingToufic Sbeiti
There is no single tool that does a full accessibility assessment of a web page. Developers use a variety of tools to help them evaluate websites. This is a practical talk with lots of demos. I will share my favorites, free and easy to use, tools to measure the level of accessibility of web page.
Using Ajax to improve your user experience at Web Directions South 2009Peak Usability
AJAX is changing the way that users interact with websites - it has the potential to provide richer and more interactive online user experiences but also introduces its own set of usability and accessibility problems. This session presents views from leading usability experts from around the world from an experienced practitioner workshop conducted at the Usability Professionals Conference in USA.
We will also discuss key usability issues we have unveiled through our own usability testing of a range of websites using AJAX over the last 2 years. The session highlights some of the pitfalls and user frustrations with AJAX as well as how AJAX can be used to enhance the user experience. We will present usability and accessibility issues and common user behaviours with AJAX applications.
Finally we discuss interaction design guidelines for developing user friendly AJAX designs.
In the old days, many developers looked at complex websites and web applications as a series of individual pages. These days, it’s all about abstracting these pages down to re-usable elements, modules and components which are then documented, designed and built as comprehensive pattern libraries. Pattern libraries can be used as an integral part of the UX, design and front-end development phases. But where should accessibility be included in these different types of pattern libraries? Come on a journey as we explore the pain and glory of baking accessibility into UX, design and front-end pattern libraries.
How do you know if your web site is accessible? Can automated testing tools help? Glenda Sims will share gems from her 10+ years of experience testing sites for accessibility. Equip yourself with free and powerful testing tools. Learn how to turn it up a notch when you need to monitor accessibility across a vast enterprise. See some of the very latest testing tools that will help you evaluate color contrast, dynamic content and WAI-ARIA compliance
5 free tools for web accessibility testingJohn McNabb
This presentation is a walkthrough of 5 tools which complement each other and can be used in combination to thoroughly test a web site. This is a balanced system of testing for WCAG guidelines, and for issues which must be experienced from a user’s point of view.
Web access for users with disabilities is an important goal and challenging problem for web content developers and designers.
Essential open source api projects to ease the developing & testing for web accessibility.
Practical tools for Web Accessibility testingToufic Sbeiti
There is no single tool that does a full accessibility assessment of a web page. Developers use a variety of tools to help them evaluate websites. This is a practical talk with lots of demos. I will share my favorites, free and easy to use, tools to measure the level of accessibility of web page.
Using Ajax to improve your user experience at Web Directions South 2009Peak Usability
AJAX is changing the way that users interact with websites - it has the potential to provide richer and more interactive online user experiences but also introduces its own set of usability and accessibility problems. This session presents views from leading usability experts from around the world from an experienced practitioner workshop conducted at the Usability Professionals Conference in USA.
We will also discuss key usability issues we have unveiled through our own usability testing of a range of websites using AJAX over the last 2 years. The session highlights some of the pitfalls and user frustrations with AJAX as well as how AJAX can be used to enhance the user experience. We will present usability and accessibility issues and common user behaviours with AJAX applications.
Finally we discuss interaction design guidelines for developing user friendly AJAX designs.
Nearly 900 million handheld computers are expected to be in use by 2015. How relevant is this shift to mobile and the growth of apps? Benedict Evans, consultant with media & technology analyst firm Enders Analysis, believes we are in a fundamental transition in the way we use digital
This is my research summary and insights of the TV cabinet showing that the TV unit has a reason to fight and exist in this epic war between On the Cabinet VS The Wall mount look for the television
Transform: Cultural & Language Considerations, Sarah MrowickiCommunicate Magazine
Cultural & Language Considerations for Global Branding
It's an interesting observation that many communicators can spend tens of thousands of pounds creating a marketing message in English, yet when that same message is needed for foreign markets, a simple translation is deemed to be enough to transfer all the brand values into words that will resonate in a culturally sensitive way within the local market. The fact is, there's a lot more to it than that.
Illustrated via a series of case histories, and real concept research you'll discover how to do it and equally importantly, how not to do it.
Sarah Mrowicki, Mother Tongue, account director
Why use LANSA Composer for business process integrationLANSA
Discover how LANSA Composer automates business processes to exchange data and business documents (e.g. purchase orders) between customers, suppliers, partners and line-of-business systems including ERP and CRM.
Find out more about LANSA Composer at: http://www.lansa.com/products/composer-data-transformation-bpi.htm
Race against deadline for companies eager to declare interim dividendTaxmann
The companies suddenly seem to be in a rush to declare interim dividend. The driving reason behind this rush lies in the amendments inserted in the Finance Bill, 2016.
Members of the Content Marketing Association (CMA) have helped their clients migrate to tablet since their arrival. The CMA recently undertook research focusing on how businesses use tablets to consume news, business documents and corporate reports. For the first time, Patrick Fuller, CEO of the CMA, shares the findings with non-CMA members.
Social Media in a Corporate Context Manchester 2010 - Kathleen Goh, DHL and S...Communicate Magazine
With so little direct contact and so many channels vying for attention, how can companies reach out to dispersed employees and keep them engaged?
To celebrate its 40th anniversary, DHL launched a global employee photo competition, an inexpensive, accessible solution to engage some 500,000 employees stretched over 220 countries.
Nearly 900 million handheld computers are expected to be in use by 2015. How relevant is this shift to mobile and the growth of apps? Benedict Evans, consultant with media & technology analyst firm Enders Analysis, believes we are in a fundamental transition in the way we use digital
This is my research summary and insights of the TV cabinet showing that the TV unit has a reason to fight and exist in this epic war between On the Cabinet VS The Wall mount look for the television
Transform: Cultural & Language Considerations, Sarah MrowickiCommunicate Magazine
Cultural & Language Considerations for Global Branding
It's an interesting observation that many communicators can spend tens of thousands of pounds creating a marketing message in English, yet when that same message is needed for foreign markets, a simple translation is deemed to be enough to transfer all the brand values into words that will resonate in a culturally sensitive way within the local market. The fact is, there's a lot more to it than that.
Illustrated via a series of case histories, and real concept research you'll discover how to do it and equally importantly, how not to do it.
Sarah Mrowicki, Mother Tongue, account director
Why use LANSA Composer for business process integrationLANSA
Discover how LANSA Composer automates business processes to exchange data and business documents (e.g. purchase orders) between customers, suppliers, partners and line-of-business systems including ERP and CRM.
Find out more about LANSA Composer at: http://www.lansa.com/products/composer-data-transformation-bpi.htm
Race against deadline for companies eager to declare interim dividendTaxmann
The companies suddenly seem to be in a rush to declare interim dividend. The driving reason behind this rush lies in the amendments inserted in the Finance Bill, 2016.
Members of the Content Marketing Association (CMA) have helped their clients migrate to tablet since their arrival. The CMA recently undertook research focusing on how businesses use tablets to consume news, business documents and corporate reports. For the first time, Patrick Fuller, CEO of the CMA, shares the findings with non-CMA members.
Social Media in a Corporate Context Manchester 2010 - Kathleen Goh, DHL and S...Communicate Magazine
With so little direct contact and so many channels vying for attention, how can companies reach out to dispersed employees and keep them engaged?
To celebrate its 40th anniversary, DHL launched a global employee photo competition, an inexpensive, accessible solution to engage some 500,000 employees stretched over 220 countries.
Principles of Health Informatics: Usability of medical softwareMartin Chapman
Principles of Health Informatics: Usability of medical software. Last delivered in 2023. All educational material listed or linked to on these pages in relation to King's College London may be provided for reference only, and therefore does not necessarily reflect the current course content.
This paper describes reusable components that can be
used by developers to implement applications for
visually handicapped users. The non visual
components are widgets adapted from graphical ones
and they use specific input/output devices and specific
interaction principles. They are implemented as
components to facilitate the component based
development of non visual applications. The
contribution of this work in the field of assistive
technology is valuable, because there are no existing
tools that facilitate the creation of interfaces for the
blind users, and it may considerably improve computer
access for this category of users.
Software Usability Implications in Requirements and DesignNatalia Juristo
There are so many software products and systems with immature usability that it is for sure that most people have enough frustrating experiences to acknowledge the low level of use that usability strategies, models and methods have in software construction.
However, usability is not at all an extra but a basic for a software system: people productivity and comfort is directly related to the usability of the software they use (in their work or at home) and several quality attribute classifications agree on the importance of considering usability as a quality attribute the seminar will discuss and debunk three myths that stand in the way of the proper incorporation of usability features into software systems. These myths are:
• usability problems can be fixed in the later development stages.
• usability has implications only for the non-functional requirements.
• the general statement of a usability feature (“The system must incorporate the undo feature”) is a sufficient specification.
A pattern-oriented solution that support developers in incorporating usability features into their requirements and designs is presented
Building products people actually can use – why all developers need to unders...Cyber-Duck
Discover the presentation from our fifth episode in Cyber-Duck's new webinar series, Essential (Laravel) developer skills for successful end-to-end project delivery.
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Definition – Fast Prototyping
Fast or rapid prototyping is a methodical exploration of innovative concept(s) by quick assembly
of pieces either tangible or intangible to validate assumptions which are important to
implement the concept. The outline of this concept is described in article “Intuit Inc. Project
AgriNova” published in HBR by Thomas Eisenmann and Tanya Bijlani. Quickly identifying &
rapidly developing solutions for part of the system which could be potential road blocks is key
to ensure success of the product. This does not need complete development of all (or some)
parts
Problem Statement
Our organization is specialized Business Analytics and Data Management expertise. Among
other things, one of the requests often made by our customer is to give guidance on suitability
of tool (or set of tools) for a particular task. Even though this knowledge is available within our
organization, it is dispersed as the consultants are working with different customer.
We set out to address the issue of
- timely availability of comparison metrics across tools
- continuous update to the metrics being used to compared
After discussing with our executives we decided to build a web based application internally so
that we can feed in the comparison data on continuous basis without spending too much time
on reconciliation efforts.
There were few challenges to be resolved while addressing the issues given in problem
statement. We conducted a brainstorming session within our organization. The outcome of this
session was a list of important components outline of which is as follows:
- User Interface: The UI should be easy to use and intuitive enough to hide the complexity
underneath. Unless the tool is easy to use people will be reluctant to use it.
- Data Update: The data should be fed in on continuous basis to ensure updates for the
tools to be compared are captured on regular basis. If the data is stale it will raise the
credibility issue of the presented comparison. We cannot compare data of outdated
version of the tools.
- Contextual Text Mapping: The biggest issue is contextual mapping of text which
describes a particular feature of tool, product or application.
Of course this list is not comprehensive, but we need to address these points to ensure viability
of the entire efforts.
I think using “Fast Prototyping” to validate the feasibility of the components is best course of
action before attempting to build this product.
Leap of Faith
Can we build & expand? As the data volume increase the methods employed, especially the
algorithm employed will perform satisfactorily? We decided to find this out.
Can we win? We did not spend great amount of time with user experience. We took a leap of
faith by assuming that the team who participated in building UX is representative of future
users. I think we should be able to tweak UI based on usage analytics and.
You’ve embarked upon a user experience project – updating your website or creating a Web or mobile app. You know there will be an element of visual and experience design, but do you understand the basics behind why your designers are making the decisions and recommendations they make?
It’s important to understand some design basics in order to communicate effectively with the designers on your team. While many of us have an intuitive feel for what works and what doesn’t, developing a vocabulary to describe your issues and feedback and understanding the techniques required to validate your hunches are important skills in order to ensure the success of your project.
This session goes in-depth on which design techniques and principles ought to be part of every executive’s vernacular. By the end of the session attendees will understand the basics of both high level interaction design and lower-level visual design in a way that maximizes energy and time in the approval process, including:
• Basic design principles to help executives understand a design’s intent. This includes a basic understanding of layout, color theory and typography. • Design vocabulary, heuristics and analysis techniques • The difference between information architecture and interaction design, and how both have a critical yet often unseen influence on the development of the end project • Why incorporating user research is critical to good design
Effective UI’s Tony Hillerson and Juan Sanchez presented “Designing an App: From Idea to Market” at Android Open in October 2011. They cover best practices for desiging an Android app that offers a good user experience.
Flash and Flex in an HTML5 / App Store WorldEffectiveUI
EffectiveUI’s RJ Owen presented “Flash and Flex in an HTML5 and App Store World” at Adobe MAX, October 2011. This is an overview of where Adobe Flash and Flex have been, and predictions for how Adobe Flash and Flex will be used in the future for design and development.
EffectiveUI Senior Software Architect RJ Owen’s presentation from Flash Camp Denver, October 2010. Covers the basics of Adobe Flex framework, how to slice frames, Flex 4 component theory and life-cycle.
Whether you work alone or in a team, some sort of source control management is essential to you as a developer for things like keeping a history of your code, dealing with integrating code, managing releases and making your development workflow through different features painless. If you're coming from something like CVS or SVN, the open-source Git version control system will turn what you know of SCM on its head. This presentation explains why Git is different, and what that difference means to you as an Android developer.
EffectiveUI lead user experience architect John McRee's presentation from South by Southwest Interactive 2011:
"It’s a cultural phenomenon that most of us didn’t see coming: baby boomers are taking over Facebook, while the millenials are abandoning it like crazy because it is so last year. After all, what 20-something wants his mom to see his status update about last night’s party? This example signifies a trend in technology overall: the assumed late adopters are now joining early adopters as technology becomes increasingly easy and fun to use. Devices such as the Wii and the iPad have overwhelmingly been adopted by the older and less technologically savvy crowd. The trend has significant design implications. As we’re designing for emergent devices, we need to be very aware that we’re definitely not designing for ourselves. User research will become even more critical, with particular attention paid to the more mature crowd as they have different needs from other generations..."
Human-Centered Design and the Intersection of the Physical and Digital WorldsEffectiveUI
EffectiveUI user experience designers Lindsay Moore and Austin Brown's Lightning Round presentation given at IxDA Interaction '11 in Boulder, CO. "Austin and Lindsay demonstrate how they've redesigned everyday objects based on the combined disciplines of industrial and digital interaction design."
From the Trenches: Building the Accessible WebEffectiveUI
Jon Reid, Senior Developer at EffectiveUI, presented "From the Trenches: A Practical Approach to Building the Accessible Web" at Accessing Higher Ground 2010, an accessible media, web and technology conference hosted by the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Leonard Souza presents this look at Flex's amazing built-in visual effects and filters, which are probably one of the primary reasons to use the framework over other RIA platforms. As it turns out they are relatively easy to create. This presentation - given at 360|Flex in September 2010 - dives into the drawing API, the base effect/filter classes and Pixel Bender. You’ll learn how to build them from the ground up in a way that is reusable for yourself and other interaction designers.
EffectiveUI Lead Mobile Developer John Blanco gives a brief introduction to Mate and explores why we need it. This presentation also reviews problems with Cairngorm and PureMVC.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Designing Great Products: The Power of Design and Leadership by Chief Designe...
Accessibility in Flex
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