Patent ID: 7636896

Claim:
A method for evaluating usability of displayed material having a plurality of portions, comprising the steps of: displaying by a computer together a set of the plurality of portions in an unintelligible format wherein in all portions of the set are selectable; making by the computer intelligible each of the set of the plurality of portions as each is indicated by actions of a user as the user searches for a desired one of the set of the plurality of portions; determining by the computer a location of each and a sequence of being made intelligible of the indicated portions as each of the set of the plurality of portions is indicated by the user; recording by the computer the location and sequence of being made intelligible of the indicated portions wherein all were made intelligible by the step of making and determined by the step of determining; detecting by the computer a selection of the desired one of the set of the plurality of portions in response to an action by the user wherein the desired one of the set of the plurality of portions was made intelligible by the step of making, determined by the step of determining and recorded by the step of recording; and exchanging by the computer the location of the desired one of the set of the plurality of portions with a location of one of the indicated portions in response to the action by the user.