Comments on: Hospital Usability Lessons http://www.meryl.net/2004/09/07/hospital-usability-lessons/ Content on writing, tech, business, marketing, web design. Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:33:41 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: codeman38 http://www.meryl.net/2004/09/07/hospital-usability-lessons/comment-page-1/#comment-676 codeman38 Wed, 08 Sep 2004 11:20:15 +0000 http://meryl.net/new/2004/09/07/hospital-usability-lessons/#comment-676 <p>Oh, also, an addendum to my previous comment: DVDs where there's an entire second disc of bonus material... NONE OF WHICH is captioned. Kudos to New Line, Paramount, and many releases from Universal for doing this right...</p> Oh, also, an addendum to my previous comment: DVDs where there’s an entire second disc of bonus material… NONE OF WHICH is captioned. Kudos to New Line, Paramount, and many releases from Universal for doing this right…

]]> By: codeman38 http://www.meryl.net/2004/09/07/hospital-usability-lessons/comment-page-1/#comment-675 codeman38 Wed, 08 Sep 2004 11:14:21 +0000 http://meryl.net/new/2004/09/07/hospital-usability-lessons/#comment-675 <p>I detest those hospital remote controls with a passion. It's well worth the cost to get a cheap universal remote and get someone to program it for the TV brand in question, especially when staying for any significant amount of time...</p> <p>And yeah, people don't seem to think about accessibility concerns with setups like that. It's a shame, really. Two other related annoyances I've with my own auditory issues: museums that don't have captions or transcripts for any of their video exhibits, and video games that are heavily dependent on audio cues with no alternative. http://www.deafgamers.com/ has at least brought the latter issue to light; too bad I still see games to this day with dialogue that I just cannot make out...</p> I detest those hospital remote controls with a passion. It’s well worth the cost to get a cheap universal remote and get someone to program it for the TV brand in question, especially when staying for any significant amount of time…

And yeah, people don’t seem to think about accessibility concerns with setups like that. It’s a shame, really. Two other related annoyances I’ve with my own auditory issues: museums that don’t have captions or transcripts for any of their video exhibits, and video games that are heavily dependent on audio cues with no alternative. http://www.deafgamers.com/ has at least brought the latter issue to light; too bad I still see games to this day with dialogue that I just cannot make out…

]]> By: Lockergnome's Web Developers http://www.meryl.net/2004/09/07/hospital-usability-lessons/comment-page-1/#comment-677 Lockergnome's Web Developers Tue, 07 Sep 2004 15:59:28 +0000 http://meryl.net/new/2004/09/07/hospital-usability-lessons/#comment-677 <p><strong>Hospital Usability Lessons</strong></p> <p>Usability isn't only for Web design. It's also applicable in the real world as things aren't always well-designed. Paying attention to real world design can help you think through usability for Web design. For instance, there is an elevator in...</p> Hospital Usability Lessons

Usability isn’t only for Web design. It’s also applicable in the real world as things aren’t always well-designed. Paying attention to real world design can help you think through usability for Web design. For instance, there is an elevator in…

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