Here’s a longish post from the UK Usability list from the RNIB usability chief defending their ‘access for all’ stance against some of the slurs on the list…
All very good, but why does their site just SUCK?!
Sites that are accessible just don’t have to look this bad – they SHOULDN’T look this bad when they [...]
Archive for October, 2006
Centre back returns from holiday to bolster RNIBs defence
Posted in Accessibility, Standards and Guidelines on October 19, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Crazy with waiting
Posted in Operations on October 17, 2006 | 2 Comments »
Still, on and on, nothing.
An email and a call a day. They say something is fixed. I look at it and see something else wrong. They go away. They say something is fixed. I look at it and…
Still after 7 work days of this now maybe we are really near to something. Maybe. Boy am [...]
She is gone, I am happy
Posted in Uncategorized on October 17, 2006 | 1 Comment »
No one mourned much, if at all. She is gone. And I am, really, happy.
I came into work yesterday and realised I didn’t have to build myself up for the weeks battle. i didn’t have to listen to her defending herself and take no blame for anything. I didn’t have to ignore a problem I [...]
Best practice
Posted in Standards and Guidelines on October 17, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
I think best practise is horseshit. How often have you watched someone hide behind this label? Usually they are a little boring, a little administrative – or wildly strategic and not at all useful. Best practice is a kind of way of appealing to a vague external power in the hope that the people you [...]
The hard stuff
Posted in Just a rant on October 10, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
As I wait for tech partner to resolve issues…
What staggers me about my manager is her inability to see a problem through anyone but her own eyes.
Case in point (BIG case in point): While being in charge of the content redevelopment process she failed to ask key people what they actually needed to have on [...]
Ongoing: PAS78
Posted in Accessibility on October 9, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
On old link perhaps, but an interesting post from the author of PAS78 and what it is trying to be: http://www.accessifyforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=3242
Deathly quiet
Posted in Operations, Standards and Guidelines on October 9, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
So we were meant to golive on Friday, and I was even ready, but then our technology partner is having difficulty getting all the various versions of the site talking to each other reliably. I feel like a teenager waiting for a call from a prospective date…
Meanwhile I have been compiling a list of things [...]
Countdown
Posted in Just a rant on October 5, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
You know the feeling… a thousand little technical niggles to sort out and someone INSISTS that such and such a paragraph must change or the APOCOLYPSE will happen NOW.
You know that it’s more important that the site be visible on IE5.5 without turning to custard, you know that one person a year looks at that [...]
