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With the reach of the BBC website I think this warrants a post
http://www.bbc.co.uk/...
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My initial response is, I hate it. Don't know what its like for the VI user, but for this dyslexic user, it stinks.
Their news home page is good. Nav menu, headings, stuff makes sense.
This is a mess. The big blocky look only works if the whole thing fits in the veiw port. This does not. I just don't know where to look first.... grrrr.
If you have scanning problems, breaking up the normal flow of a pages layout realy sucks.
Sorry to be so negative.Maybe something more positive will strike me later...
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OK now I've had a play, closed all the crap I don't want, shuffled it around, and noticed that the nav pane is the one at the bottom, I might not send a rude email to my friend in their web dev dept.
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I like the fact that they have widgety options to set your text size, but setting where I want it breaks their new home page. Not completely, but enough to look broken.
Better than no text resizing option, but not by much...
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| I might not send a rude email to my friend in their web dev dept. |
lol, ya ya... we all know you've already sent it ^^
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- The progressive disclosure arrows look pushed when they are hovered over but not pushed.
- Headings marked up as headings, although a level gets skipped in places.
- It uses Flash 9 to show an analogue clock.
- Links in the Radio box say they take you to a new web page, going by the status bar, but they actually work like tabs within the Radio box. To reach the actual page, you click the leftmost link in the list of 3 links (not marked up as a list) in the bottom of the tab which is revealed.
- Labels are explicitly associated with their input.
- It's fixed-width and doesn't fit in 800x600 screens.
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| It uses Flash 9 to show an analogue clock. |
You sure? Even so, it isn't a vital function of the site
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| It's fixed-width and doesn't fit in 800x600 screens. |
You can change this in site apperance
But yes it is a bit gadettty but I think it's great they have the courage to try something this radical as we can all learn from it and make decisssions
I would certainly love to read their user testing data
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Looks promising to me. Tidy throws up a few warnings that are almost inherent with a CMS, but nothing to get excited about. Very difficult to have a meaningful home page to a huge site - this looks a good effort. I think they should go for a semi-fluid layout, though.
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i've posted this already to a mailing list, so apologies for those who've already come across it:
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| A few things I noticed (being ultra-critical perhaps at this stage):
First three links on the page are invisible skip links that don't show up, even on focus, plus there's another hidden link to accesskey definitions after the "accessibility help" link. On the separate "modules", it's initially confusing that clicking on the expand/contract triangle and clicking on the actual heading itself has different effects. I'd have expected clicking on a heading to trigger the expand/contract, not take me to that particular section on the site (maybe it's just me). The design itself is not very subtle...the gradients are just a bit too heavy and give a "bumpy" appearance. The gradient in the chunky footer makes the text towards the bottom of the box (e.g. "Healthy living, parenting...") a bit hard to read, as the contrast is far too low. Search box has no LABEL, but a title attribute of "searchfield". They could have wrapped the text in the legend of the fieldset as an actual label, perhaps
or just have a hidden (positioned off-screen) label for it (maybe with "search terms" as label text). Just navigating by keyboard and hitting "Reset homepage" brings up the lightbox-style confirm/cancel dialog. However, the focus isn't set to this box, to tabbing simply cycles through the *whole* page's links (behind the dimmed "fog of war") before finally getting focus on the actual confirm/cancel buttons. Speaking of buttons, confirm/cancel, reset homepage, save changes, cancel, edit etc should possibly be actual BUTTON elements, not regular A links (for the purists concerned with the distinction between links "going somewhere" and buttons "performing an action"). Hitting the "edit" buttons when a module is collapsed has no apparent effect, in which case they should remain hidden until expanded. |
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Sorry about that, redux. You can have your brain back now. 
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Looks like this has now gone live
www.bbc.co.uk
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James Coltham - Local gov web manager by day, web and accessibility blogger at lunchtime, freelancer by night. Tweets at @prettysimple.
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The style is a bit odd at first but that site kinda grew on me, i like the news site best though. Ive not tested the main site with a SR yet.
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It is highly influential design. I have had my bosses asking if we could do the same at our design agency. I have already started implementing allot of the open source jQuery features found on the BBC homepage into my movie site but I am not upto the level of being able to move content around and I would rather not use tables like the BBC have to achieve this! I do think it is a step forward in in graphical web2.0 design._________________
Johan De Silva / Portfolio | Place of Work @Flipside | Read my movie reviews punk!
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The News section has been redone as well both onscreen and on mobile
http://news.bbc.co.uk/
Not fan of the mobile version as there less headlines now requiring you to make an extra click to reach articles, something which is annoying on mobile due to download speed and, in my case, connection as I go through tunnels on my tube ride in the morning
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I think thats a superb website now. Very slick. Noticed it yesterday after posting here.
Still, the image descriptions suck and dont really describe whats in the image. Should be more descriptive i think. For example the current image of "Paul Burrell" is just alt="Paul Burrell". Not gonna win any creative writing prizes there
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