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Shocking

Yuck:

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Via WaSP. When the 13th International World Wide Web Conference gets it this badly wrong it’s obvious that something about our industry is fundamentally broken.

And with that note, I’m off to SXSW.

Posted 12th March 2004 at 3:07 am

This is Shocking by Simon Willison, posted on 12th March 2004.

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9 comments

  1. Hope your bus ride is safe and not too eventful. :) See you there.

    Matt - 12th March 2004 07:59 - #

  2. Not to mention the CommonPitfall of assuming that everyone surfs with a white background-color... never pretty :-)

    Chriztian Steinmeier - 12th March 2004 11:16 - #

  3. Simon, Shoot me an e-mail and I'll give you my cell #. Would love to meet you at SXSW.

    KC - 12th March 2004 14:33 - #

  4. At least it's accessible. Wouldn't you love to hear a screen reader reading that alt-text?

    Jason Clark - 12th March 2004 14:58 - #

  5. Ouch... "13th international www conference"... "top-logo"... "NY, NY sheraton - may 17-22"... "program"... "bot-logo"... "chairs"... "nyc"... "photogallery"... "schedule"... "registration"... "non data table graphics"... "non data table graphics"... Some still wonder why they don't need to cater for the disabled? I feel pained just trying to read it.

    Jonathan Stanley - 12th March 2004 15:24 - #

  6. I like thinking that www2004 and lockergnome's redesigns are early April jokes.
    I dislike knowing that they're not.

    Michel Valdrighi - 15th March 2004 01:28 - #

  7. Shocking? Are you sure that is the right word? How about old-fashoined?

    Matt - 19th March 2004 20:40 - #

  8. Definitely shocking. Old fashioned would be if they had omitted alt attributes entirely. The fact is that they added alt attribute in such a way as to decrease the accessibility of the site - which is just shockingly negligent. It's not like it's any old site either; this is the official site for the biggest WWW conference in the world!

    Simon Willison - 19th March 2004 20:56 - #

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    gyj - 8th April 2004 14:12 - #

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