Archive for June, 2010
Birmingham City Council website is ‘not good enough’
It’s out – it confirms what we all said at the time. Birmingham City Council’s website is ‘not good enough’. That is putting it quite mildly to be honest.
It cost £3million pounds is 3 years late and is completely inaccessible.They claimed:
“We are pleased to announce that this web site meets with W3C WAI-AA and WCAG 2.0 accessibility standards..”
It’s not. Even more helpful disabled people were sent to BBC...
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Category Digital
Meltdown at The South Bank
Update (15th June)
Following my tweeting about this blog I’ve had a response from Head of Customer Relations at South Bank Centre offering a refund for the Krystle Warren tickets and comps to see a performance at any time over the next year.
I’ve replied (with thanks). It has to be appreciated that South Bank Centre responded quickly to address my complaint.
I’ve also raised a number of concerns back regarding how they:
test in-house...
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Category Arts and Culture, Blogs, Digital, Music Tags: Deafness and Deaf Culture, Disability Discrimination Act, Disabled access, Hard of Hearing, Kate McCarrigle, Krystle Warren, Martha Wainwright, Meltdown, Meltdownfest, RFH, Richard Thompson, Royal Festival Hall, Rufus Wainwright, SBC, sennhiser infra red system, South Bank Centre, southbankcentre
