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From: Patrick Lauke
Date: Jun 12, 2006 2:50AM

> Jukka K. Korpela

> Are we really looking at the same site?

Yes, we are.

I agree with you that the homepage is a bit dense in information,
so yes, this may need a bit of tweaking. But for some of your other
issues:

> Many links are not underlined, and links do not differ
> sufficiently from text by color.

The links which aren't underlined are all grouped in panels which
(at least to me) look fairly obviously like navigation-type panels.
Where links are intertwined with non-link text in the main content area,
they're underlined fine.

As for the colour: fair enough, that could also do with some tweaking.

> It would take quite some time to listen to it in its entirety.

Because, obviously, screen reader users passively sit back and get the
entire page read to them? I'd say this is the exception, rather than
the norm. And as the page has relevant headings, things marked up as lists,
etc, there are plenty of hooks for screen reader users to jump around
the page, orient themselves, and so forth.

> It doesn't fit in a browser window even in fullscreen mode.
> (Need for vertical scrolling is of course
> acceptable on most pages, but main pages should be viewable without
> scrolling.)

Oh dear...should be viewable without scrolling? At what resolution and
browser window size? Seems like a bit of a sweeping generalisation to me.

> The red backgrounds of headings hurt my eyes

But that would fall under "personal (aesthetic) preference", no?

So, in short: a few things may benefit from a slight after-market tweak
(and the 404 issue definitely needs to be addressed, I strongly agree with
you on that), but personally I don't think it's such a disaster.

Patrick
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Patrick H. Lauke
Web Editor / University of Salford
http://www.salford.ac.uk
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