Graham

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Programmer Analyst. Background in web design and usability. Currently working with C#.NET & EF4.

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Apr 24	comment	Why is it impossible to deselect HTML “radio” inputs? But you COULD half-way push in the radio button to de-select the previously selected one! Why does everyone who quotes the history of the radio button forget this?
Jan 30	comment	Using mailto: links for email addresses…what is the practice these days? @VirtuosiMedia So more work = more professional? That's a pretty big assumption. What if I spent a ton of time on my non-skipable animated Splash page? Surely you wouldn't say that was more professional than just redirecting to a home screen.
Jan 29	comment	Form for inputting operating hours of a business The programming work required to make such natural language processing would be tremendous! This is not realistic at all. If such processing were easy, the very interaction designers that come to this board would mostly be out of jobs.
Apr 13	awarded	Scholar
Apr 13	accepted	Should I show the Bank name as a user enters a routing number?
Apr 12	comment	Should I show the Bank name as a user enters a routing number? I am expecting typos to occur, and those events generate a regular 'error' message, since the routing number does not match a known bank. I'm just curious if there's any value to showing the bank name when the user always has that in front of them physically when they do the typing.
Apr 12	comment	Should I show the Bank name as a user enters a routing number? But I'm saying NO ONE has their routing numbers memorized. They are just reading them off their check book or bank statement, which has the bank name printed right there. I do like your idea of showing it as a confirmation after submittal, because we DO have a mechanism where they can kill that payment right after they make it but before their bank is drafted.
Apr 11	comment	Should I show the Bank name as a user enters a routing number? Thank for you letting me know about this new invention of 'confirmation text' :) And in THIS app, text that appears as a user is entering values is ALWAYS an error. Am I wrong in sticking to my guns on this issue?
Apr 11	awarded	Student
Apr 11	asked	Should I show the Bank name as a user enters a routing number?
Dec 28	comment	Is it ok to require certain users to have JavaScript enabled? My thoughts exactly. Virtually all modern sites look like crap in IE5 (some of which are unusable) but there's no push for "graceful degradation" to give them a text-only version, because there's no business reason to care about such a small and unmotivated pool of users.
Sep 26	comment	Why do people clear the screen multiple times when using a calculator? I would smash that snarky calculator into a thousand pieces, for the record.
Sep 26	awarded	Commentator
Sep 26	comment	Why do people clear the screen multiple times when using a calculator? This exactly, I never bothered to remember which does what, so I just hammer both a few times to be sure.
Aug 31	comment	What is/are best practice(s) to align an HTML checkbox on a web form? Dear sweet baby Jesus do NOT listen to anyone who tells you "tables are not accessible." If that was even REMOTELY the case then do you honestly think screen readers would have EVER caught on in the visually impaired community? Screen readers DO/CAN read tables a little differently if the user instructs them to do so. They'll do things like repeat the column headers and such. But other than that, readers will read out the content in the order in the source order, which will be fine. Just make sure you use proper labels.
Aug 26	comment	Keyboard shortcut for “Submit form” If I'm inside a textarea in your form, and the form submits when I hit "Enter," I will come track you down and gouge out your eyes with a rusty spork.
Aug 15	awarded	Teacher
Aug 15	answered	What's the point in electronic devices beeping on keypress?
Aug 12	comment	OK/Cancel on left/right? I disagree. We read left to right (in the West), but we do NOT scan interfaces uniformly left to right. A row of buttons is not read like a sentence, as our brains perceive them as separate objects first, and then we attempt to parse the text inside each one for meaning separately.
Aug 11	comment	Better purchase conversions for single page vs. multiple? Ahhh yup that page is nice and simple. I think I misunderstood your question a little.