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Site Review: 2002 Olympics

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the 100-click-dash dept.

Andy King writes: "If Olympic Web sites were an event, Salt Lake wouldn't even take the bronze. Our review reveals some gnarly accessibility moguls." There's another review of the site which mentions the many accessibility problems that the Sydney Olympics had with its website. The site doesn't appear to work at all with konqueror.

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  1. Re:More like the Special Olympics... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait


    Hmm...

    Is it like the Special Olympics in that, even if you win, you're still retarded?

  2. Re:Biggest "accessibility mogul" by InterruptDescriptorT · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I know I'm replying to my own post, but it just occurred to me that the lack of independent Web media representation at the games would make an excellent YRO story or even something for Katz to write about. Was there a story run during the Sydney or Nagano Olympics about this? My brain doesn't have that much buffer space to remember stuff that far back.

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  3. konqueror? so? by $lacker · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The site doesn't appear to work at all with konqueror.
    That's not a problem with the website, that's a problem with the program. If Netscape and IE work, konqueror developers should be able to make their browser work.... or at least stop bitching about it.

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  4. Keep pro-globalization stories off Slashdot!!! by mr_don't · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The Olympics are as sick as any military operation (another ridiculous subject to feature on Slashdot) since in their wake they create debt, job loss, environmental damage, social rights abuses, and make many TV companies (who we hate because of HDTV copy protection, but now that they show the Olympics, we love them) and developers rich at the expense of working class and poor people in the communities that the Olympics infiltrate!

    Check out the Burn the Olympics Page, and then please consider a change in your attitude toward the money-making politics of the Olympics!

  5. How to make an accessibility troll... by LadyLucky · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    First I decided to turn off the use of the tag in my browser, cuz i have version 0.5.0.4 of RandomBrowser (tm). And it doesnt display properly!! I cant click anything! frankly, im shocked that they could overlook such an obvious accessibility necessity.

    After turning them back on, I decided that I would check how well the page works on my cell phone (WAP, baby yeah!). And again, it is shocking. There are millions of poor people in the third world whose only internet access is through cell phones. How are they to find out the glittery goings on on the website?

    Again, to reiterate this: Frankly, im shocked.
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