Yesterday I saw an adv on the national tv, here in Italia. They were advertising their new web site, so this morning I checked out the new site. It's awful. From the point of view of accessibility is awful. After the horrible experiment of italia.it, I hoped that they had learned their lesson, but I was wrong.
- First of all it opens a pop-up with ads. It is quite unfair, because Italian people pays for the national tv, so I would expect at least no ads pop-up.
- Second it uses massively flash technologies. I don't think flash is the most usable technology for many reasons: it is not free, it is not available anywhere, it is not designed for d-people, you can hardly cut and paste from flash stuffs, ...
I agree that sometimes flash can be used to bring some interactiveness that is not available through standard html or javascript, but in this site it is only used for a menu with highlighted entries. This is unacceptable! - Neither the html parts are standard. Check out this...
- They use real media for their streaming.
It's a pity because they are losing a chance to build a nice project. If I were them, I would have taken different decisions:
- Use free codecs for streaming
- Use only plain html: you can do wonderful sites with html and css, if you are able.
- Use podcasts, and use them well. One single podcast for each single program.
- Use youtube, google video, democracyplayer and whatever to distribute your contents.
- License everything as CC
2 comments:
Hello,
i'm italian and what you reported
is truthful.
Let me say an italian phrase :
"Che vadano affanculo!"
Hi, I know it's truthful... I'm Italian as well...
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