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 [...]
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Centre back returns from holiday to bolster RNIBs defence
Posted in Accessibility, Standards and Guidelines on October 19, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
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 [...]