SpeechUtilities.com

 

Website Design Philosophy

I have designed this website with two main goals:

  1. Frameless design with frame functionality.
  2. Setting up links so as to be able to navigate hands-free.

This design simulates frames by having all the links available on every page, without actually having frames. Frontpage calls this shared borders. What's wrong with frames?  See my rant below.

The second goal is to make the links be voice friendly and unique on each page so that the user hopefully will always be able to engage a link by saying the underlined text.

Contact me if I have fallen down on the job in this regard.

Start rant: I hate frames. The reason being that when you click on a link (for instance, if the links over on the left-hand side were actually in a frame), the "focus" stays within that frame.  That means that if what you actually want to see as a document (for instance over here) is longer than can be displayed on the screen, saying "page-down" merely moves you down within the original frame, rather than the document that you actually want to see go down.  You must click within the document first.  For able-bodied computer users who have plenty of mouse clicks left in their fingers and arms, this is not much of a problem, for some of us it is.  Even if it weren't, I still think it is poor design. Finish rant.