Peter

that "/f" is useful, and will replace the current shortcut om my platforms.. 

In terms of other feedbacks, personally I find the use of grey on white an issue when used to (not) demark things like this answer box, but that is eyesight, and the format of course the uncertainly about who a reply is for and the running order of a thread.

Roger

I do sometimes wonder about the neural diversity question  - I rather fear that  "neuro-typicals" are really just all that majority of people who unfortunately will never be able to properly comprehend and follow the engineering method and systematic 'cover all bases' approach, and do not share that feeling of exposure and irritation some of us feel when something has not been done properly.  But on a solidly engineering forum it is most likely that NT will not be the majority of users anyway, so perhaps we should not worry, but be asking for a website design that is intended to be most efficient for the main user base.

Andy

With you on the apparently disordered desk thing - somewhere under here I have one, but not much of it is visible - but contrary to popular belief that is not any  handicap to successful working, it just distresses visitors who do not think it ought to be that way. However I'm not sure that the scramble filing aspect is generation/education - my children are both the same. (but the home computer is Linux so the option of windows photos is not there.)

M,

Peter

that "/f" is useful, and will replace the current shortcut om my platforms.. 

In terms of other feedbacks, personally I find the use of grey on white an issue when used to (not) demark things like this answer box, but that is eyesight, and the format of course the uncertainly about who a reply is for and the running order of a thread.

Roger

I do sometimes wonder about the neural diversity question  - I rather fear that  "neuro-typicals" are really just all that majority of people who unfortunately will never be able to properly comprehend and follow the engineering method and systematic 'cover all bases' approach, and do not share that feeling of exposure and irritation some of us feel when something has not been done properly.  But on a solidly engineering forum it is most likely that NT will not be the majority of users anyway, so perhaps we should not worry, but be asking for a website design that is intended to be most efficient for the main user base.

Andy

With you on the apparently disordered desk thing - somewhere under here I have one, but not much of it is visible - but contrary to popular belief that is not any  handicap to successful working, it just distresses visitors who do not think it ought to be that way. However I'm not sure that the scramble filing aspect is generation/education - my children are both the same. (but the home computer is Linux so the option of windows photos is not there.)

M,

Thank you all for your comments and interest 

Peter, this is approximately my first experience of posting on this forum. I was looking for something like ‘New Topic’,’ New Discussion’, ‘New Thread’ as I see on other forums (fora??). I finally found a pale grey button saying ‘Ask’ (I agree with Mike’s comments on the low contrast grey not being helpful. Was this tested with visually impaired users?).

This had a box next to it so I pasted my text there. (If I am writing more than a sentence I type it in  a word processor first having lost too many pieces of work due to pressing the wrong button or forum problems.) This turned the ‘Ask’ button black and allowed me to move on to the next step. Now I could decide if this was a question or a discussion, why not before? I also found I had pasted my entire text in the subject box. Ok so cut all except the title off and paste it in the box below. Now look for an emoticon, probably in ‘insert’, Ok found. I then had another option to add ‘technical topics’ which I suppose are like tags. No idea what to use for this question so I just left it and pressed post.

 I also noticed that I had a welcome email from Lisa so I went to add a modified version of this post in response to her. I pasted the same piece of text in the reply box and went to add a couple of lines at the start to explain a bit more and ended up sending the mail 

I shut the browser down and went off to do some colouring in my blanket cave (actually I went back to modifying the CAD drawings for a radiation safety system). These may seem like trivial problems but auti/aspi people have enough problems dealing with change anyway.

Andy, Mike, the photo storing is an interesting problem. I generally store chronologically by camera as we have a selection of digital cameras for different purposes. Specific trips are stored in their own named folders with all cameras together as this is easier for my wife when she makes photobooks. To me tags will only work properly if you ensure that all the relevant tags are there at the start. If you develop a new interest do you go back and add the tag to all the relevant pictures. The same applies to the ‘relevance’ function on this forum.