Fetch… the comfy web site!
Hey, I’ve never claimed to have a life of my own. I live through other people’s blogs instead.
It’s not like I have insightful, interesting stuff to write here. I just ramble on about whatever happens to be on my mind at the moment.
I’ve found a bunch of courses I’d like to study. Most of them I’ve already done once, but due to the severe depression I suffered from then, I have very poor grades. Can’t say that they represent my actual skills and knowledge on the subject.
Academedia have pretty much all the media-related courses I need. If I don’t get the job at Connex, I’m planning to study something there full-time.
Mark Pilgrim has noted that the Microsoft redesign is an accessibility disaster. Zeldman has noted that it is a web standards disaster. I’m not going to complain about microsoft.com, though; I’m going to complain about Vuxenutbildningscentrum, the site you’re supposed to use when applying for studies. Ye gods, what a mess. Sure, it has a pretty nice visual layout, but you can forget accessibility and standards support.
To start with: the site is contained in a popup. There is absolutely no reason for this. The site would look better in a normal browser window instead of a popup with a size defined by them (although it is resizable).
How is a blind person supposed to navigate their site? They don’t use alt attributes for images. There’s no DTD. <font> tags galore. They use javascript in <a> tags to redirect you, instead of plain simply stating the link target in the href attribute.
Bobby’s verdict shoots them down in flames. Someone should be sent to the firing squad for making a site like that.