Underwhelmed by WAP - Impressions from the coalface
Added on Wednesday 20 Aug 2003
Mike Banahan gives his Impressions of Using WAP/WML
"WML is terribly limited in what it will display on the screen, with an extremely restricted set of markup tags supported and a curious `deck of cards' metaphor where each page is considered to consist of a `deck' - individually displayable sub-pages within the whole page itself. The usefulness of the deck/card division is unclear in the tutorials that I have seen so far and I haven't discovered a compelling argument for it yet."
It was Michael Jackson of the The British Computer Society - Newcastle and District Branch Committee who pointed me to the above link. Michael got in touch to ask if I would be willing to speak at one of their future meetings - the topic: "The Web is ruined, and we - IT professionals - ruined it".
The need for accessible web design training.
What I should have said in relation to yesterdays news from the Disability Rights Commission, was that the MCU runs an extremely good Accessible Web Design Training Course.