Comments on: Three Ways in Which Web 2.0 have Destroyed Accessiblity

By: Henry Gilbert

Henry Gilbert — Thu, 20 May 2010 22:43:52 +0000

I am all for accessibility and can’t stand fads and Web 2.0 nonsense.

JQuery is horrible, everytime I see any image loading on the slow irritating animation I close the page. It looks tarty and cheap also.

Simplicity. I am all for it.

I think it’s OK if the site is a blog, social media etc – then have as many widgets you want. Personal sites. Vanity sites.

By: Rob T

Rob T — Wed, 12 May 2010 10:04:31 +0000

I like how digg’s framed navigation bar works for visiting sites. It’s very clean and works perfectly.

By: Malin

Malin — Tue, 11 May 2010 19:21:32 +0000

I actually thought popups and frames were about to totally disappear ^^. And where are the frames on those sites you mention? Am I blind?

By: Rhys

Rhys — Tue, 11 May 2010 14:59:50 +0000

@Professor Beej: Couldn’t agree with you more, but if I was to rewrite this post, I’d include the bar at the bottom! Oh my goodness, outside of facebook, it sucks & often just quick links to pointless stuff & affiliate programme.

Great comment

By: Professor Beej

Professor Beej — Tue, 11 May 2010 14:55:45 +0000

I often leave a page without reading the content if I get a jQuery ebook ad as soon as I arrive. I don’t want to subscribe to your newsletter or get your ebook if I don’t even know what you have to say or if I’ll like it when I do. The bar at the bottom of the page is bad, and often a turnoff, too, but nowhere near as the full-screen splash ads requesting my email.

If you’re trying that hard to market yourself /before/ I read your content, then something’s amiss.