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From: diveintomark <rssfeeds@spamassassin.taint.org>
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Subject: Microsoft redesign
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Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2002 08:00:05 -0000
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URL: http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/10/03.html#microsoft_redesign
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Date: 2002-10-03T14:42:29-05:00
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_Jeffrey Zeldman_: Party like it's 1997[1]. “Microsoft has redesigned.
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Its new layout uses font tags and other deprecated junk straight out of the
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mid-1990s. ... When a W3C member company that helped create XHTML and CSS
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ignores or misuses those web standards on its corporate site, you have to
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wonder who didn't get the memo.”
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The new design also fails even the most basic accessibility tests[2]; the home
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page contains 80 instances of images without ALT text. This is the same basic
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failing for which the Sydney Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games was
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successfully sued in 2000[3].
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Here is what microsoft.com looks like in a text-only browser[4]. (To better
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understand the experience, take a piece of paper and cover your entire monitor
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except for the top line, then scroll the window slowly so you can only read one
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line at a time.) While nothing is technically locked out (all the links are
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regular links, nothing requires Javascript to function properly), all the
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un-ALT-enhanced images (which are mostly spacer images and images-as-bullets)
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add so much clutter to the page that it's very difficult to navigate.
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Meanwhile, I don't want to imagine what it would sound like through a screen
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reader. Want to find the search box? That's “1pttrans dot gif 1pttrans
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dot gif search for 1pttrans dot gif 1pttrans dot gif form edit box 1pttrans dot
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gif submit button go 1pttrans dot gif link advanced search 1pttrans dot gif
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...” And I hope you weren't looking for Microsoft's accessibility home
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page[5]; it's the 76th link on the page (out of 76).
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[1] http://www.zeldman.com/daily/0902b.html#prince
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[2] http://bobby.watchfire.com/bobby/bobbyServlet?advanced=true&URL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.microsoft.com%2F&gl=wcag1-a&Text=text&line=line&an_errs=an_errs&stealth=Bobby%2F3.3&output=Submit
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[3] http://www.contenu.nu/socog.html
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[4] http://diveintomark.org/public/microsoft_lynx_output.txt
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[5] http://www.microsoft.com/enable/
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