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Odeon Orders Takedown Of Copycat Site
Tuxedo Jack writes "The Register reports that Odeon Cinemas, a British theater chain, has ordered a takedown of a copycat version of its site that was made by a disability activist. The original didn't work outside of IE on Windows and was in violation of the Disability Discrimination Act; the activist-recoded one worked on everything. Odeon has flip-flopped on the issue, too; they liked it when it was first up, and now they don't."
... a slashdotting will. :\
This first post must be taken down immediately.
Regards
Odeon
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c. free movies,
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The original didn't work outside of IE on Windows and was in violation of the Disability Discrimination Act
Well, I for one liked the original. I suffer from mental retardation you see, and as a result I only use and swear by Microsoft products. As a disabled person, I can testify that the original website worked perfectly.
The new page on the other hand, which was aimed at open-minded people who used other, non-Microsoft browsers, was constantly reminding me of my disability and as such was totally discriminatory. And not just to me, but to all the disabled IT guys at Odeon also! I am so glad it's not accessible anymore, so I can go back to my comforting illusions.
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
I know this is an American website, but Odeon Cinemas is a chain of cinemas, not theatres (which are this marvellous new thing where actual real people act the story out in front of your eyes, no film involved!)
;-)
Bloody yanks...
10 PRINT "LOOK AROUND YOU ";
20 GOTO 10
Someone should make a movie about this.
How Odeous!
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
I am outraged that you:
A) think I am so predictable that 4 measly options will cover 99.999% of my reactions
B) glossed over other important issues
C) didn't fill in the blanks for me
D) there is no D...
Yep, B it is.
In the future, I would want to not be isolated from my friends in the Space Station.
Every time someone orders a site down, it gets posted on Slashdot.
Guess what - the sites go down.
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a,d,a-c,b,c,c,d.
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Maybe the blind can't see the movie, but at least they can buy tickets! Thank you Accessible Od*on!
Right on the money. Anti-Slash also criticizes Slashdot for its lack of standards compliance. Yet, Anti-Slash itself is not HTML compliant.
A developer asked me today "How many blind people access our site?".
I answered "God forbid, if the wrong thing happened to you today, tomorrow we could have one more."
True quote.
I test web accessibility, BTW.
umm, view source??
But this "Act" would seem to make it illegal to make a site that is all flash
Seems to me that's an argument in favor of the Act.
The only reason we have the rights we have is that people just like us died to gain those rights. -- Cheerio Boy
Kill two birds with one stone and hire the guy to fix the website. I guarantee that he's cheaper than the lawyers. It'd also make great publicity.
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Yes, Odeon has messed up in a SCO fashion, but I can imagine that MS actually pressured Odeon to do this.
You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner.
Considering the amount of bitching that goes on here, I'd say that Slashdot is mostly-complaint, but will likely never make it to fully-complaint outside of SCO/MPAA/RIAA/Microsoft articles.
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visually disabled (who do go to movies, believe it or not)
Oh, I believe it. In fact, I've got the sneaking suspicious that many modern films are DIRECTED by the visually disabled.
Hey freaks: now you're ju
I used to have a .tv email address. The odeon site refused point blank to allow me to book because it was 'invalid'. I started going to other cinemas instead... Great marketing guys.
Might be worth sending the company itself a letter saying that their "Marketing Director" is doing a fine job of representing their company on the web and should be commended for their "no-nonsense" attitude towards making sure that websites designed for the disabled were crushed without compromise.
Ah yes, nothing says "savvy PR technique" like having your Marketing Director make your company look cold and heartless towards disabled people when it's "featured" on one of the busiest websites on the planet.
But on a totally different level, I can understand their frustration. A guy who's not employed by the company designed a better and more usable system than their presumably well-paid webmonkies could create.
I'd put my money on "the source of the complaints" coming from Odeon "in-house website elements" that didn't like the free competition outdoing them...
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"Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence." - Charles de Gaulle