- From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 21:01:18 +0100 (BST)
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
The Register has an article describing how the only good thing about the new version of the UK railway journey planner is that it has a more memorable URL! It describes how a usable system has been broken by the use of invisible links, scripting only links, unnecessary cookies, deleting the well known, if obscure URL, with no redirection, and a general failure to return the appropriate information early enough in the dialogue or to accept slightly unusual queries (the train has already departed, I want to meet it, when will it arrive?). The conclusion is that one would be better off using the English language version of the German railways one. The main caveat about the article is that they push the use of Bobby, but don't give the necessary caveats about needing to do manual checks. (The change probably reflects a step in the renationalisation of the rail network. I guess, as part of the re-branding, the web site was done from scratch.) http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/30564.html
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