[CEUD-ICT] Cooper's redesigned website

[Tim Culhane]

Hi,

Had a look  using jaws  and IE 7.

Personally I think its horrible.

The idea of putting the entire contents of a site on  one page is just
overwhelming.  Its very difficult to find what you  want   and the
javascript doesn't appear to work  for me with jaws ... At least,  I' know
the page has refreshed, but I'm not brought anywhere relevant.


I'm not sure  what you mean that it is reassuring to have an entire site on
one page.  You are still going to have to scroll around to see  everything?


Breaking things down into concise bight sized chunks  seems much nicer to
me.

Tim



-----Original Message-----
From: ceud-ict-bounces at list.universaldesign.ie
[mailto:ceud-ict-bounces at list.universaldesign.ie] On Behalf Of Alan M.
Dalton
Sent: 14 July 2010 13:38
To: ceud-ict at list.universaldesign.ie
Subject: [CEUD-ICT] Cooper's redesigned website



Hi,

Alan Cooper's design company has redesigned their website [1].

Interestingly, the whole content of the website is actually on one huge
page. (At least, that's how it appeared to me in Internet Explorer 7.)

There are typical navigation bars at the top of the page, but they don't
link to new webpages. Instead, they use JavaScript to move the content, so
that the bit of content that you're looking for ends up in front of you. The
movement takes a second, and is deliberately very visible, so you can learn
what's going on. It took me a few seconds to realise what was happening.
It's nicely reassuring to have the whole website in front of you at once,
because you don't have to spend time discovering it by following links that
load new webpages. It's possible, but time-consuming, to navigate by
keyboard only. I haven't tried navigating the website with a screen reader;
I would guess that different screen readers would give different levels of
success with it.

What do you all think? I'd be very interested to hear your opinions on the
accessibility of this design. It might become a popular design format.

[1] http://www.cooper.com/

Regards,
Alan.
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Alan Dalton
Accessibility Development Advisor for EtA http://www.nda.ie/eta Access
Officer for NDA http://www.nda.ie

Address: National Disability Authority, 25 Clyde Road, Dublin 4. _


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