I realize I'm being blunt here, but that website is irritating as &@(# to use. There's not enough contrast between the text and background (except with the yellow, which hurts my eyes) and most of the homepage seems devoted to explaining how to use the website, rather than telling the user what the site stands for and what information can be found there. I think a lot of people looking for information from this site will be stopped cold by the homepage and be unwilling to navigate deeper due to the extra effort it entails.
[Edit] Ok, my second point, about the homepage being devoted to explanation was incorrect. I was looking at the accessibility page. This does bring up a new point, though. The site has some issues with telling the user where they are on it. I thought the accessibility page title was actually a section title for a portion of the page. Page titles should always be visually separate from the page content so that when a reader looks at it they think "Oh, that's the page title."
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22 Feb 2009, 9:46 am
