{"id":31,"date":"2010-08-06T13:32:15","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T13:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/elearningteam\/?p=31"},"modified":"2011-01-28T13:01:35","modified_gmt":"2011-01-28T13:01:35","slug":"2010-study-direct-login-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/elearningteam\/2010\/08\/06\/2010-study-direct-login-page\/","title":{"rendered":"2010 Study Direct login page"},"content":{"rendered":"

For Autumn 2010 the Study Direct team have been making\u00a0 changes to the way Study Direct looks and works to start to improve some the usability problems users have with the website.<\/p>\n

2009 login page<\/h3>\n

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The 2009 login page contained a lot of information and images, which pushed the actual login box down quite far down the screen. We found for users with smaller screens they often had to scroll to enter their login details. For users with screen readers this was a particular problem, as the login box was the very last thing on the page. Although the page has very clear and detailed text everywhere – generally users found it rather over-busy with no clear focus on what the page was, or what they could do here.<\/p>\n

2010 login page<\/h3>\n

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The page now – hopefully – tells you where you are, and what you can do here – sign in.<\/p>\n

We also took the time to add a ‘Forgot your username or password’ link and some nice HTML5 form features<\/a> including :<\/p>\n