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Creating Online Environments That Work Well For Older Users

• An opinion piece by Barry Rueger, who for context is “well past sixty”. He makes several suggestions that are widely recognised as universally good practices, such as improving website load speed and ensuring good grammar and spelling. Others are more subjective: that older people prefer text and ignore videos in search results, or that they hold onto old, slow machines for longer. Barry makes the case for black text on white backgrounds; a controversial subject as several user groups find this harder to read (there are some comments below the article to that effect). Finally, an interesting point about the success of Amazon being down to its website’s consistency; “we know the site, and we know that we can do our shopping quickly and painlessly”. He suggests resisting the urge to reinvent your website unnecessarily.

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