Jermayn Parker wrote:
It is not that good...
Yes it may load quick but it is a useless uninformative site and apart
from the home page it is ugly and bare as naked bones.
Lets hope that the designer does not win any awards
That's all down to inevitable site content though. The designer has done
the most he or she could, barring turning down the job.
I am involved in a long-term project to design a site with accessibility
features similar to this - it is a site primarily concerned with
presenting music and graphic art, in key instances using flash and
javascript-assisted stylistic presentation, and as such its content is
mainly of a hi-tech, sensory and artistic nature.
It just so happens that there is a lot of very wordy prose around the
site, so perhaps it might meet your standards, but there are very large
portions of the site whose raison d'etre is a method of accessing
intrinsically audio and visual content that by its nature, cannot have a
truly worthwhile text substitute. I am not going to tell the artists to
create accessible 'alternatives' to their creations, neither am I going
to tell them that their work has no place on the internet except as
trivial extra features - I'm proud to be able to help them prove that
the internet is exactly the place for them to do whatever they want, all
the while abiding by intelligent accessibility standards.
The question we should be asking ourselves is how web-based content
whose ultimate purpose is to present artistic (and this includes -
crucially - corporate art) media should be made to be as accessible as
possible, not 'if'. But to say that such sites cannot be well designed
is tragic wishful thinking. Remember design is always a means to an end.
The Ivy Hotel has done a great job as far as design is concerned. Its
content is indeed flimsy in concrete terms, and as an informative
document it is very weak - but the internet shouldn't be limited to
encyclopedias, reference manuals and opinion columns.
Regards,
Barney
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