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1. Nielsen says that reading on the screen is how much slower than reading from paper?
10% 25% 60% 75% 2. What is “relevance-enhanced image reduction” and why is it needed particularly in screen-based documents like Web pages?
rasterizing images to make them compatible with Web browsers cropping and scaling images to create effective thumbnail images identifying images verbally for visually impaired users using Macromedia Flash to make complex images download very quickly
3. One of the following is not a technique for formatting text to make Web pages more legible, according to Nielsen. Which of these doesn't belong in the list?
use all capital letters when you want to emphasize high-contrast colors between text and background plain colors or subtle patterns in the background big-enough typefaces text that doesn't move, blink, or zoom left-justified text with a "steady starting point for the eye."
4. In Nielsen’s chapter, he uses “The Queen’s Speech” as an example of "content design." From the list below, choose the characteristics that Nielsen either praises or criticizes in this example:
effective segmenting of speech into separate topics buttons are too big a link to the entire speech is available for those who want to watch the whole thing questionable advertising at the top of the page badly cropped photo of Queen
5. What from the chapter did you find most interesting, surprising or useful?
When you click the "Send" button below, you will go to the Webx discussion "best point to remember from nielsen's "content design" chapter." There, write a short paragraph that:
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