[CEUD-ICT] Cooper's redesigned website

[Tim Culhane]

Hi,

This is a company  who's mission  seems  to be to inovate  and design
products with simplicity of use at their core.

If they had done this as an experiment, then I could understand it, but its
obviously for real as the site is live to everybody.

Seems to  me that they have lost sight of their core values.

Tim


-----Original Message-----
From: ceud-ict-bounces at list.universaldesign.ie
[mailto:ceud-ict-bounces at list.universaldesign.ie] On Behalf Of Mark Magennis
Sent: 14 July 2010 15:04
To: Centre for Excellence in Universal Design ICT mailing list
Subject: Re: [CEUD-ICT] Cooper's redesigned website


It's different. First look gives me a lot of problems. The text can't be
resized without zooming the whole thing. When I do try to change the text
size (something I do frequently), it loses where I am and shows me either a
blank 'page' or one with a sliver of the 'home' page against the right edge
of the window. I can scroll horizontally to reach other 'pages', although
there are no scrollbars so I couldn't do it without mouse gestures.

The website appears to be constructed as one huge flat space containing
multiple fixed-size pages arranged in a grid. One consequence of this is
that how much of a page you see and how much of the surrounding pages
(above, below, left and right) you also see is dependent on the size of your
window and your zoom setting. If your window is bigger than a zoomed page,
you don't see it all. If it is smaller, you see the edges of the surrounding
pages as well, which I find incredibly distracting.

I've not looked at it for long but I can see a couple of other accessibility
issues. The main navigation links and some of the body text have very low
contrast against the background (luminosity ratio in the region of 1.4:1 for
main navigation). The links don't highlight on keyboard focus. Generally,
tabbing around the page is a weird experience altogether.

It would take some getting used to at least.

Mark

On 14 Jul 2010, at 13:38, Alan M. Dalton wrote:

> 
> 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.
> _
> 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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