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Usability / Accessibility

What is the difference between a radio button and a checkbox?
The options in a radio button are mutually exclusive. The options in checkboxes can be many.

Give a definition of “easy to use”.
Open question: The answer should contain the following concepts: learnable, affordable, memorable, visibility and feedback.

Explain Fitts’s law.
Fitts’s law is a model of human movement in human–computer interaction and ergonomics that predicts that the time required to rapidly move to a target area is a function of the distance to and the size of the target. Fitts’s law is used to model the act of pointing, either by physically touching an object with a hand or finger, or virtually, by pointing to an object on a computer monitor using a pointing device.

List and explain 5 techniques to make a page accessible to disabled people.
Open question

Why are dropdown menu’s good/bad for usability?
Good for frequent usage: high learning curve. Technical limitations can be difficult to overcome from a technical point of view. Bad for first-time users because it hides the possibilities and the navigation cannot be scanned.

Web development – server side

What is a CMS?
Possible answers: technical system / system to manage content

List daily/weekly/monthly tasks of webmaster?
Daily: e-mail / telephone support, making sure the websites are accessible all the time
Weekly/Monthly: Gathering user requirements, Performance monitoring, Bug fixes, Implement feature requests
Monthly: Training new users, Reporting

What is an API?
Application programming interface

Explain the concept of cross domain requests and the security implications and possible solutions.
HTTPrequest are limited to the domain it is originating from which makes it difficult to communicate across different domains. Possible solution include switching to JSON which is a JavaScript native format, or using a crossdomain.xml document on the requested domain to allow cross domain request between the two.

What is the difference between 301 and 302 HTTP redirects?
301: Moved permanently
302: Temporary redirect

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