KNOPPIX 8.5.0 released

Posted Mar 17, 2019 15:31 UTC (Sun) by jrigg (guest, #30848)
In reply to: KNOPPIX 8.5.0 released by Zenith
Parent article: KNOPPIX 8.5.0 released

> the ADRIANE website is not really optimized for modern browsers or responsive design.

It seems quite responsive here (ie. it loads almost instantly) in Firefox.

KNOPPIX 8.5.0 released

Posted Mar 17, 2019 15:55 UTC (Sun) by zdzichu (subscriber, #17118) [Link] (3 responses)

Sorry, responsive is not about loading speed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsive_web_design

KNOPPIX 8.5.0 released

Posted Mar 17, 2019 22:04 UTC (Sun) by jrigg (guest, #30848) [Link] (2 responses)

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsive_web_design

Thanks for the link. I was unaware of that use of the term. FWIW, the fancier and more JS-reliant a software project's web site is, the less likely I am to use the software.

KNOPPIX 8.5.0 released

Posted Mar 17, 2019 22:36 UTC (Sun) by Zenith (guest, #24899) [Link] (1 responses)

Not entirely sure about this, but my impression is that the fancier it is, the more likely it is that it supports screen readers by correctly marking up buttons and links for the screen reader to work with.
But responsive designs are the norm and a website that doesn't scale to mobile is a bit weird in this day and age.

KNOPPIX 8.5.0 released

Posted Mar 18, 2019 10:16 UTC (Mon) by philh (subscriber, #14797) [Link]

Looking at W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 <https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG/> I note that the only mention of "responsive" is in this note:

> New A full page includes each variation of the page that is automatically presented by the page for various screen sizes (e.g. variations in a responsive Web page). Each of these variations needs to conform (or needs to have a conforming alternate version) in order for the entire page to conform.

which suggests that one needs to work rather harder at accessibility when doing a responsive design.

So, the page isn't great if you are sighted, and are using a phone to look at it, but that's not really the target audience for the page.

If one assumes that the page was authored by Adriane Knopper herself, it doesn't strike me as particularly shocking that the visual aspects of the presentation have not received a lot of attention.

I'd imagine that constrictive criticism would be welcome, but I'm guessing that devoting effort to making it look good on a mobile phone is not going to happen, particularly not if that might result in even the slightest degradation of the user experience for those using screen readers.