PhillyCHI & Delaware Valley UPA Joint Meeting

Date: February 26 2009

Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Website: http://phillychi.acm.org/?p=101

About This Event

WHEN: Thursday, February 26, 2009, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
* Meet & Greet from 6:00 - 6:30 PM *

WHERE: John M. Huntsman Hall, Room 260
Wharton School of Business
3730 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Map: http://tinyurl.com/av96yb
Parking Info: http://www.facilities.upenn.edu/mapsBldgs/view_map.php3?id=419

Organizations spend countless hours and lots of money worrying over the usability of their sites. But this usually means simply seeing if users can navigate the site, operate widgets, and perform critical functions. Rarely do they ever test to see if users can read, understand, and use the site's content.

This presentation by veteran readability tester Angela Colter, will examine the how's and why's of readability testing.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Angela Colter is a freelance usability and accessibility consultant in Philadelphia.

She has worked on numerous readability projects for the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Justice, and Pfizer. While a senior usability specialist at UserWorks, she was the lead researcher for a Government Accountability Office study on the readability of credit card disclosure materials.

Angela is a doctoral candidate at the University of Baltimore researching how to make search engines easier for users with low literacy skills.

ABOUT OUR SPONSOR

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HOSTING ORGANIZATIONS

Learn about PhillyCHI at http://phillychi.acm.org/.

Learn about the UPA Delaware Valley at http://upadelawarevalley.org/.

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acm, design, information architecture, networking, phillychi, readability, sigchi, upa, usability, user experience, user research