[Ansteorra] Event Site Opinion (WAS: the Three Queens website)

[Rose & Chad]

I think that websites should be as accommodating as possible... Keeping in mind that sometimes throwing up the event flyer is about all they are able to do. It's all well and good to want and expect a really informative and convenient website but if there's not anyone who knows how to create one, it's just not going to happen.

I have seen that the BoD does encourage compliant websites, but I don't see how they can enforce that as a rule without simply forcing quite a few sites down with no expectation of putting them back up. If I have to choose between a mediocre website and no website at all, I'll take the mediocre, please. :)

I feel that the only way that I can say anything about wanting better websites is to offer to create them myself, which I have done for the last three or four events that my Barony has had, and would be happy to do for anyone else who asked. (I really mean that.)

I also feel that we have come along way with information tech in the last few years, as I have seen more and more event websites instead of the just the ad and a few list announcement. I certainly wouldn't want to discourage any effort by boycotting events with mediocre sites, any more than I would boycott an event with a mediocre event ad. (Which, sadly, I see alot of.)

In fact, I would like to thank every autocrat and/or event-website-o-crat who went the extra mile and threw something up on the Internet at all, even if it was just the event flyer. (Like Lord Garreth Silverthane, who consistently creates terrific sites for various events, happenings, and groups in Ansteorra.)

Anyway, that's just my nickel. (It was two cents, but inflation, you know...)


Rose the Obnoxious



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--- On Wed, 6/24/09, mikea <mikea at mikea.ath.cx> wrote:

> From: mikea <mikea at mikea.ath.cx>
> Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] ISO the Three Queens website
> To: "Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc." <ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org>
> Date: Wednesday, June 24, 2009, 2:33 AM
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 12:35:43AM
> -0500, Haraldr Bassi wrote:
> > That would be because there is no text to see. It's
> nothing but graphics. 
> > So anyone who doesn't show all images by default will
> see nothing. Any 
> > visually impaired person who browses the net using a
> screen reader is just 
> > plain outta luck.
> > 
> > Please.... please.... everyone who is designing event
> websites, stop using 
> > nothing but graphic images for your event web site. We
> can't cut and paste, 
> > we can't even print things well. It's getting to the
> point where I am 
> > likely to start ignoring/boycotting any event whose
> website is nothing but 
> > graphics.
> 
> Ditto. I can see very well indeed now, but have many
> friends who can't.
> It is entirely probable that at some point in time I will
> be in their
> boat. 
> 
> Graphics-only websites, however beautiful and attractive to
> the sighted,
> are actively unfriendly to the blind, and fail to comply
> with the
> Americans with Disabilities Act, which the BoD has said the
> Society
> *will* comply with.
> 
> -- 
> Mike Andrews       
> /   Michael Fenwick    Barony of
> Namron, Ansteorra
> mikea at mikea.ath.cx 
> /   Amateur Extra radio operator W5EGO
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