Comments on: Please Provide Padding

By: Mirko Erwig

Mirko Erwig — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:25:19 +0000

Yes, but isn’t improved usability also a step towards better accessibility?

By: Martin Kliehm

Martin Kliehm — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:35:32 +0000

@Mirko I’m afraid this is beyond my control because it’s in the design domain. However, at an internal conference in two months I have the chance to brainwash our designers as I talk about accessibility for designers then. Actually that’s more of an usability issue, but still …

By: Mirko Erwig

Mirko Erwig — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:18:45 +0000

Great idea! What do you think about adding some visual hover-effect to the buttons itself? Or is this beyond your control because it's 3rd party?

By: Martin Kliehm

Martin Kliehm — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 05:39:33 +0000

@peterkz_swe I suppose people still aim at the button image, but as their cursor turns into a hand / pointer, they get enough feedback to encourage clicking.

By: Peter Krantz

Peter Krantz — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:56:45 +0000

That is a great approach to making the most out of the GUI design. The buttons are really hard to hover using my Lenovo "g-spot" mouse control but this trick makes it easier. Did users understand that it required less precision or did they still try to put the pointer precisely over the image?