Comments on: Fresh01′s redesign: more questions for the DTI

By: rugs

rugs — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 14:45:54 +0000

Would love to know how this worked out in the end – I think you took a significant step here in what it is you did. This kind of thing happens many times in this industry, by the looks of it, and it shows how from a governmental level people just don’t know the internet or the value it adds. Your case is not the first case I’ve heard of this sort of thing.
If possible, you should add a link here for people who’ve just stumbled upon this now to pick up and see what the end result is. I enjoy following this kind of thing with a lot of interest. At any rate, I’ll muse around your site and see what I can find.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 20:24:38 +0000

Excellent point, Charlie. I’m writing up my thoughts in a post rather than a comment; will be posted in few days.

By: Charlie Oates

Charlie Oates — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 18:11:26 +0000

I’ve posted this on the blether.com site, but thought it may be should go here too. Apologies for ‘double posting’!

I suppose there’s been no outcome from the internal investigation if you’ve posted nothing on here. Are they telling you anything?

Another issue, though I agree with you (and your co-conspiritor’s) comments and agree that it’s a shocking waste of taxpayers money on such a terrible site, have you received any comments or support from people who find the site difficult to use because it’s so inaccessible? I just wonder because a lot of the time it seems as if the people who really get their nickers in a twist about this are not the people who use screen readers or who are visually impaired, but it’s the people who want websites to be designed well, So I just wondered if you’d had any contact from those that you, your co-conspiritor and many others, proport to be representing and fighting on behalf of?

By: Oli

Oli — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 14:55:10 +0000

The The Usability site has a section on their clients, with individual pages for each client.

Many of the titles on the pages are wrong, presumably because they cut and pasted and forgot to change the title in the pasted page. (Camelot for example says “Online Gambling e-Commerce | Victor Chandler”, The Planning Portal says “Interactive Voice Recognition (IVR) | paybox”)

I suggest they employ a proof reader and QA company to check their own output.

By: Andy Saxton

Andy Saxton — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 20:23:10 +0000

Power to the people. Will be sending an email shortly.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 12:42:39 +0000

That’s a fine email, Mike. Thanks. People: copy his, not mine!