http://blog.alism.com/play-mondays-website-sucks/ Movie reviews and general geekiness Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:12:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://blog.alism.com/play-mondays-website-sucks/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Accessibility and Usability in the Third Sector at Thu, 22 Jun 2006 20:23:58 +0000 http://blog.alism.com/play-mondays-website-sucks/#comment-6 [...] My colleague Lou Cook, is going to podcast about Charities and their apparent neglect of website accessibility. (keep your ears peeled) When it comes to accessibility in the online world its inseparable from usability in my opinion. In the Third Sector this is an issue too. Although some would argue that the ill-fated playmonday.com has nothing to with Charity (!), the Third Sector needs to brush up its web presence. What this blogger says is so true of playmonday.com’s site - he/she blogged about this when Chariot’s share price was a little higher than it is today! In a subsequent post he/she rightly asks whether “lack of usability help kill off internet-only Monday?” - I like the analysis. Resource is always a concern and I am not beating up small charities who are trying their best constrained by resources, but the bigger guys have no excuse, they are paying over the odds to agencies who aren’t getting it right and the charities know no better. [...] [...] My colleague Lou Cook, is going to podcast about Charities and their apparent neglect of website accessibility. (keep your ears peeled) When it comes to accessibility in the online world its inseparable from usability in my opinion. In the Third Sector this is an issue too. Although some would argue that the ill-fated playmonday.com has nothing to with Charity (!), the Third Sector needs to brush up its web presence. What this blogger says is so true of playmonday.com’s site – he/she blogged about this when Chariot’s share price was a little higher than it is today! In a subsequent post he/she rightly asks whether “lack of usability help kill off internet-only Monday?” – I like the analysis. Resource is always a concern and I am not beating up small charities who are trying their best constrained by resources, but the bigger guys have no excuse, they are paying over the odds to agencies who aren’t getting it right and the charities know no better. [...]

]]> http://blog.alism.com/play-mondays-website-sucks/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Nobody Likes Monday - Blogalism Fri, 02 Jun 2006 22:10:34 +0000 http://blog.alism.com/play-mondays-website-sucks/#comment-5 [...] I posted about Play Monday’s awful website a while back. Since then, little has changed on the usability front - apart from them adding a link to play future draws. [...] [...] I posted about Play Monday’s awful website a while back. Since then, little has changed on the usability front – apart from them adding a link to play future draws. [...]

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