The IIA blog mentions that there is a draft Accessible Procurement Toolkit currently available for comment … [Read more...] about Accessibility Procurement Toolkit
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SalesOnline – Breaking Usability
Whoever is behind the new "design" for SalesOnline.ie should be taken out and horsewhipped, flogged and then shot. If I wanted to download a boring video I'm big enough and ugly enough to know how to do it myself. Forcing me to download the damned thing when I go to a website is just plain dumb. How do these people expect anyone to buy anything from them? For an online … [Read more...] about SalesOnline – Breaking Usability
Why “no follow” sucks
Over the past year or so most of the blog engines have defaulted to using the nofollow tag in comments. This tag basically tells search engine spiders not to follow the links. While this can be handy if you want to mention a competitor it's not so useful when you have genuine contributors to your blog's comments. While I can understand the reasoning behind the introduction of … [Read more...] about Why “no follow” sucks
The Broken Web
From time to time I come across website that simply do not work properly in Firefox. In most cases this can cause some degree of irritation, but other times it is extremely frustrating. At present I am researching cars, so I've been working my way through as many of the Irish car sites as possible in order to gauge pricing etc., Unfortunately at least one of the sites that … [Read more...] about The Broken Web
IEDR unveils new website
Back in December of last year I mentioned the IEDR's planned rebranding. They have finally unveiled the new site design this afternoon. Although I'm not a designer I like the new look and feel: Unfortunately not all elements of the new site will work perfectly in all browsers, but it is a definite improvement on the previous design and layout. … [Read more...] about IEDR unveils new website