Tag Archives: accessibility

Egalitarianism and Progressive Enhancement

Progressive enhancement follows the Golden Rule because it is concerned with the “other”. That’s why accessibility is such a key part of building websites following the progressive enhancement philosophy. It’s about putting yourself in someone else’s shoes—someone whose abilities and situation probably differ from yours. We are a diverse lot after all. One hell of a read from Aaron […]

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Information architecture. Usability. Accessibility. Web standards. If you don’t know about these things, stop designing websites until you have learned. Competence in graphic design is merely a baseline; it does not qualify you to create user experiences for the web.

- Jeffrey Zeldman

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Odeon Cinemas in We’re-A-Bunch-Of-Muppets shocker

So Odeon have suddenly decided that they don’t like the accessible version of their cinema listings that Matt Somerville built, and have shut it down.

Nice. Instead of investigating why someone felt the need to go to all this effort then taking a smart course of action — like making their site more accessible for instance — they decided that strong-arming was the way to go.

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