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“Forms suck.  If you don’t believe me, try to find people who like filling them in.”
Are you kidding, I paid for a book that begins like that?  My first reaction was that I could have written that!  Well I didn’t write it, and I also feel that I got my money’s worth out of Web [...]

I’ve always been a fan of the <label> element. It’s an incredibly simple way to make a form more accessible. It does two things:

It explicitly associates text with a form element, so a screenreader doesn’t have to guess what text goes with what form element.
For checkboxes/radio buttons, it gives the user a larger [...]

When you do a search, and you click on a deep page.  The website makes you login, which you do begrudgingly. Where do they take you? To your home page.  Do they even offer to send you to the page you were looking for? Almost never.
Come on, guys & girls.  That’s just too easy…

My thought for the day is this:
Everyone should keep usability in mind while performing their job. While creating something (especially like a website), some aspects end up being unrelated—graphic design to programmers, implementation details to designers, etc—however usability should be an part of every aspect of the creation process. There are an unending [...]