{"id":268,"date":"2005-03-14T12:04:19","date_gmt":"2005-03-14T17:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/14\/low-literacy-users\/"},"modified":"2011-06-15T17:21:11","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T21:21:11","slug":"low-literacy-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/low-literacy-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Low-Literacy Users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.useit.com\/alertbox\/20050314.html\">Jakob Nielsen&#8217;s current Alertbox column<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.useit.com\/alertbox\/20050314.html\" title=\"Low-Literacy Users (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)\">Low-Literacy Users<\/a> has implications for users with disabilities and a host of others as well. More: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.useit.com\/alertbox\/20050314.html\" title=\"Low-Literacy Users (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)\"><br \/> <\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Long experience shows that improving usability for users with disabilities typically increases usability for non-disabled users as well. Similarly, improving websites for lower-literacy users can also help higher-literacy users. That said, some sites are targeted mainly at higher-literacy users:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; * B2B sites that target business professionals, managers, and decision-makers<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; * E-commerce sites that sell expensive or intellectual products<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; * The public relations and investor relations areas of corporate sites<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; * Content sites that cover scientific or other advanced topics<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; * Intranets for knowledge workers <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jakob Nielsen&#8217;s current Alertbox column: Low-Literacy Users has implications for users with disabilities and a host of others as well. More: Long experience shows that improving usability for users with disabilities typically increases usability for non-disabled users as well. Similarly, improving websites for lower-literacy users can also help higher-literacy users. That said, some sites are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-268","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-general","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":869,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions\/869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}