[Cms-moe-list] media online environment

[David Jennings]

At 5:07 pm +0100 14/6/01, Jay COUSINS(SCS) wrote:
>further amendment
>
>the MOE site has been moved it can now be previewed at
>
>http://www.media-tech.org.uk/mo/newsite/mo/linked/moe/index1.htm

Thanks for this. Some quick comments:

-  visual look of the site: fab! significant improvement, I think, in 
terms of reflecting the kind of design values that our target market 
will identify with (and by this I mean no disrespect to previous 
version)

-  use of Flash: again, this is the way things are going (like it or 
not) with our target market, so I welcome this _but_ we need to keep 
an eye on the accessibility issues - viz: the usability indicators in 
the Context of Use doc include "6.6 Conformance of all main pages to 
RNIB, Bobby and W3C guidelines for accessibility in web page design ( 
http://www.cast.org/bobby/ and http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/ 
respectively)" I am not saying that the new pages don't conform, but 
someone needs to check that they do...

-  navigation: I feel strongly that this needs reorganising. 
Customers will want speedy access to the 5 (6?) key services. 
Therefore these shouldn't be hidden at the secondary level under the 
Services heading - they should all be accessible directly from the 
top-level navigation. Conversely, the stuff about Project Partners 
and Funding, Aims and Objectives, and Future Developments is dry and 
boring stuff that only the plonkers (sic) in Yorkshire Forward and 
the Learning Skills Councils will be interested in - so these should 
be demoted to secondary level navigation under some heading like 
Project Details

-  the list of services doesn't appear to have links to the services 
themselves. We have (at least) a functioning forums service (see 
http://forums.media-tech.org.uk:8080/mailman/listinfo/), so we need 
to link to these forums.

These comments are not comprehensive, but I hope they are useful.

Cheers, David