[thelist] Old Browsers old Software, cut bait and move on.
aardvark
roselli at earthlink.net
Thu Jul 12 00:28:18 CDT 2001
> From: Paola Kathuria <paola at limitless.co.uk>
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> Probably, but I don't understand why this is necessary anymore.
> There seems to me to be a myth that an accessible
> (backwardly-compatible) site has to be a site that is dull, just
> text, no design and no interactivity. I have wondered whether
> the (sorry...) crappy web sites of various usability "gurus"
> has created this myth.
yes.
and if i sound like i'm speaking from the mount, i am... i toss away
all veils of humility and absolutely say that those damn usability
experts can't design and have given usability/accessibility bad
street cred in design circles...
> Anyway, for the past few years, I've wished there was a
> respected review/awards site which acknowledged these
> attributes equally (content, design, usability and
> accessibility). Too many official awards focus on visual
> design.
many have tried, all have failed... although i like the 5k awards,
probably the only web award that has any merit in my eyes...
> I think that Evolt is the perfect forum to host such a
> review mechanism or awards system. Hopefully someone will
> read this far down to see the suggestion! (It's something
> I've been thinking about for a while and so I can put my
> vision of it in writing if anyone's interested.)
well, do you really want me to be a judge? have you *read* some
of my posts... ugh, everyone loses... go home and work on your
mousetraps...
that is, of course, a joke... ok, only the second part...
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