Comments on: Amazon.com to go accessible?

By: cashinco

cashinco — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 19:29:17 +0000

Stu, I agree with you. It amazes me with not only Amazon, but with a lot of these “monster” companies. With all the $$ they have, you would sure think they would focus more on their coding structure, etc. and bring in the most competent people.

By: Stu

Stu — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:04:42 +0000

I’m surprised they’ve taken so long to get to this point to be honest. I’ve always taken Amazon for granted, and it was only after looking at their source code I realised how truly horrible it is.

Surely moving to a more standards compliant layout would mean lighter code and therefore savings in terms of bandwidth?

By: Mo

Mo — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 11:27:56 +0000

I’m still waiting (I’ve been waiting for about a year, now) for the RNIB to explain to me why they have such a terrible web-site…

Accessibility isn’t by any means just about blind people, but even /their/ champion organisations can’t get it right. I don’t hold out much hope for anybody else, really.

By: Tony J.

Tony J. — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 16:18:18 +0000

"decent, semantic html for the site. Not every disability-lobbying site gets that." Tell me about it. Look at the horrendous visual design vomited out by nested tables and font tags on the International Center for Disability Resources on the Internet site.