Most print publications use a serif font, one with the small flourishes at the tip of letters such as Times New Roman. With serif fonts being the norm in print, it might seem odd accessibility regulations require sans serif but there is good reason. For people with good vision, a typeface with serifs is slightly easier and faster to read than one without serifs. Typically, for people with low vision, the serifs significantly degrade legibility. The importance of using a sans serif typeface is especially important for digital content since it is typically read on-screen and not in hardcopy print. It’s okay to use serif fonts for headings or other emphasis. Sans serif is most important for body text and fluid reading.
I've also seen apparently sans-serif is easier for screen readers, but I don't understand why that would be the case so I'm not sure that's correct.
I can't remember when
Probably whenever it was that new tech started tracking users more and more and sending the data back to parent corp in order to deliver more and more targeted ads, even in tech that traditionally never had ads or even a computer at all, and all of this without adding any actual new features or benefits to the purchaser (and in some cases even degrading the user experience).
I hope the acquisition doesn't spread the blandness.
Acquisitions always spread the blandness. Seems like companies rarely understand why a company they acquired was successful or of interest to them in the first place and make too many changes to cut costs and reduce overlap in roles that it's difficult if not impossible for things to remain the same.
And if you do use the wrong term, the immediate clarification of the word by the teenager behind the counter with that cold, professional smile...or stare.
So it's like Starbucks when you say you want a large coffee.
Or the former Loews Theaters chain when asking for butter on your popcorn it's really butter flavored topping; I suspect management requires the clarification, at Loews I was told we had to do so to make sure customers understood it was not butter and we didn't get sued for false advertising or whatever...not sure how likely that really was and if it was chain-wide policy or not, but the theater manager where I worked was serious about it.
One of the few games that literally changed the game.
Yep...here's some background on the game:
The Shareware Scene, Part 4: DOOM. Also read the prior and next parts of this series to get more of an idea how.
It even contained functions for creating and moving sprites.
A lot of these more advanced features (including sprites, access to expanded memory, subprograms, and more) required the the TI Extended BASIC Command Module (cartridge). The built-in TI BASIC did not support these features.
Yeah, John Oliver did an excellent segment on all of this; Tickets: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
"Ticketmaster is one of the most hated companies on earth, which is really impressive because remember this is a planet in which AT&T also exists."
As to head proportions, all it take is a funny burial to misshape a skull.
That can be changed during life too: Artificial cranial deformation
5. Acquisitions
I ended up at a large bank when my small regional bank was acquired by Capital One. I've seen several small banks get gobbled up, I wouldn't be surprised if it happens a lot more than I'm aware of. Then that #4 (inertia) kicks in...
The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh
