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Caroline Jarrett

@cjforms.bsky.social

Forms and survey specialist. Always keen to try to answer your questions about making better forms (and if you must, maybe even those about surveys). Effortmark.co.uk

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Check out this 2 bedroom retirement property for sale on Rightmove 2 bedroom retirement property for sale in Ashdown Court, Cromer, NR27 for Β£160,000. Marketed by William H. Brown, Cromer

Hello lovely people, I need your help.

We still haven’t found a buyer for Mum’s lovely retirement house near the sea in Cromer on Norfolk coast. It really is time someone else was making happy memories there.

I’d really appreciate everyone sharing it widely 😁

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...

09.01.2026 15:48 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 53    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 3

Enjoy wearing it as it is! Looks great

07.02.2026 22:01 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Personalised Package - Go As You Please Funerals Design A Coffin As You Please Get creative with our design team to create a completely bespoke coffin. About Us Get In Touch What Is Bespoke Coffin Design? Imagine a coffin as a blank canvas that you ...

I discovered today that you can get a custom coffin. If these folks can do a Game of Thrones or. Newcastle Brown, I’m sure they could do a Hansard. Or a Civil Service Pensions website.

www.goasyouplease.com/packages/per...

06.02.2026 22:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes I got one but I just deleted it. I very rarely use Flickr

06.02.2026 11:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Years ago, I had an ice-cream maker where I had to freeze the bowl ahead of time but it didn’t really work for me especially as the bowl didn’t fit easily in our freezer.

Would love to experiment with the giant machines that do all the freezing but they are huge and £££ so I stick to no-churn.

05.02.2026 21:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
No-Churn Ice Creams | Nigella's Recipes | Nigella Lawson Ice cream made easy! These no-churn ice creams are very simple, and absolutely delicious.

If you’re ok with alcohol, then @nigella.bsky.social’s no-churn margarita ice-cream is a favourite that I’ve made many times.

She also has some no-churn recipes without alcohol, and it’s easy to leave the espresso liqueur out of the coffee one (sets a bit harder)

www.nigella.com/recipes/no-c...

05.02.2026 21:22 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

A form.

The form part will dominate the reading and interaction behaviour.

But who cares what I think? I’d make or gather a few examples and then ask the anticipated users what they call it.

05.02.2026 19:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I had a huge struggle to bin a useless and ugly thing that I’d used to practice free motion quilting. It’s been annoying me for ages but it was still a fight to chuck it out today.

05.02.2026 15:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Glad you’re taking time to rest

05.02.2026 14:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Fashion!

05.02.2026 12:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

In today’s episode of #FixTheForms, @pubstr.at battles to give money to an organization that’s reluctant to accept it

Pro tip: if you only do usability testing with ONE bit of your site, choose the bit that allows people to pay you. Then make changes based on what you find.

04.02.2026 18:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Home - Effortmark Effortmark is Caroline Jarrett's consultancy business. Caroline is the forms specialist. She advises, trains, speaks and writes on forms, surveys and user experience

Test message. We now think that Effortmark.com is working ok

(Background: our previous hosting company has been gradually ceasing to trade and we’re still managing the fallout / transfer to the new one)

04.02.2026 17:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Yay

04.02.2026 16:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Phew, I think it's sorted now

04.02.2026 16:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Home - Effortmark Effortmark is Caroline Jarrett's consultancy business. Caroline is the forms specialist. She advises, trains, speaks and writes on forms, surveys and user experience

Test message to check whether effortmark.co.uk now goes to the correct website

04.02.2026 16:48 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks, I'll have to ask Mythic Beasts about it

04.02.2026 11:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It used to be fine, I could type in my website address as I expected. Now it isn't.

(And I happen to own effortmark.com too which wasn't redirecting properly either, but we'll see. That might be OK now, I don't know)

04.02.2026 11:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

@support.bsky.team
Please can you tell me why BlueSky is mangling the address of my website effortmark.co.uk in messages, but is working properly for other sites such as bbc.co.uk?

04.02.2026 11:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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BBC - Home The best of the BBC, with the latest news and sport headlines, weather, TV & radio highlights and much more from across the whole of BBC Online.

This is another test message. If believ that if I type bbc.co.uk I get the website I expect, but if I type effortmark.co.uk I get something weird. Why?

04.02.2026 11:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1
Margay This is a server for Mythic Beasts hosting accounts.

Sorry to interrupt - this is a test message.

Why is BlueSky changing effortmark.co.uk into something weird?

Do I have to type www.effortmark.co.uk to get the right link?

04.02.2026 11:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

@jamieandlion.bsky.social
BlueSky weirdly changed my correct website address to one that doesn't work, I don't know why not. And it won't let me reply to your reply to me, I don't know why not.

DM is fine and to get to my website, put effortmark with .co.uk into your browser.

04.02.2026 11:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We could continue to chat … my website has contact details Effortmark.co.uk

04.02.2026 08:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Though sadly, I think this is a harder problem than it ought to be. Accessibility of the survey tools themselves is a bit of a sore point.
Accessibility of a specific questionnaire can be better, depends on the question types and wording.
Tracing responses, must be possible but I’m not sure.

04.02.2026 08:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Happy to help if I can.

04.02.2026 08:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ready for an update Content journey mapping, user research with disabled people, designing for people who are deaf, and plain language versus plain English.

Latest edition of the now-called Clear Language Club newsletter from last week includes:

– plain language vs plain English by @cjforms.bsky.social
– user research with disabled people
– designing for people who are deaf by @vitalyf.bsky.social
– screen readers misconceptions by @tetralogical.com

03.02.2026 20:41 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Random m to remind me that autocorrect always wants to scupper me

01.02.2026 21:00 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If I’m honest, I didn’t realise that β€œgo all in” had anything to do with poker until you pointed it out, oops

But I really, really loathe that website. But maybe it doesn’t matter as it’s not aimed at me (addicted to reading for as long as I can remember m)

01.02.2026 20:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Previous reply also deleted

01.02.2026 19:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sigh. It’s about reading not testing - pesky autocorrect

01.02.2026 17:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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National Year of Reading 2026 | Go All In Bring reading closer to culture in 2026. Discover ideas, events and ways to take part at home, school, work and in your community.

I see you and raise you Go all in, which is government but not even on a .gov.uk domain

Plus, remarkably hard to read font for a site about testing

goallin.org.uk

01.02.2026 13:24 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

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