I found Designing for the elderly a thought-provoking article. Rather than tossing it aside– oh, that isn’t our audience– you might ask yourself if some of the changes you make to your site might help other user bases beyond the elderly. The rolling suitcases you see in every airpost pulled along by everybody were originally invented to meet the unique needs of flight attendents. Yet they seem to have managed to be useful to everyone. larger fonts, simple designs may also help the impaired and the impatient…
I had a great chat with Mark at Web2001 about using his skinning css work to provide an easy “large-text edition” to websites. very exciting. I think I need to take two days to recode (and apply the redesign) to my site.
oh, p.s. a few horrid pictures from that event I’ve posted here. Feel the excitment! Panels of speakers! Hugging geeks! Giant numbers!