Polytechnic » accessibility http://polytechnic.co.uk The personal brain dump of Garrett Coakley Sat, 14 Jan 2012 15:48:10 +0000 en hourly 1 Testify http://polytechnic.co.uk/blog/2007/04/testify http://polytechnic.co.uk/blog/2007/04/testify#comments Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 garrettc 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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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

]]> http://polytechnic.co.uk/blog/2007/04/testify/feed 0 Odeon Cinemas in We’re-A-Bunch-Of-Muppets shocker http://polytechnic.co.uk/blog/2004/07/odeon-cinemas-in-were-a-bunch-of-muppets-shocker http://polytechnic.co.uk/blog/2004/07/odeon-cinemas-in-were-a-bunch-of-muppets-shocker#comments Sun, 11 Jul 2004 18:46:00 +0000 garrettc 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.

More comment from John.

]]> 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.

More comment from John.

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