Meryl's Notes Blog

Disappointing. Handango has been an online business from the start, selling mobile device software. So I am surprised the company didn’t follow Web standards when redesigning its site and using CSS for layouts. The company doesn’t ask for feedback on its site. I wonder if it involved the user in its redesign. However, the company did later email a survey to those on their mailing list asking for feedback and I gave it to ‘em.

I give the company credit, it’s less overwhelming when entering the site. The previous design had too much and the user probably had trouble deciding where to go unless he had visited the site many time as I had. But I am not sure this is what the users want to see when they go to the site. Any comments, users?

I am finding few of its images have alt tags. Why is it companies are still overlooking this simple accessibility item? It also doesn’t use DOCTYPE declaration, a big oversight. So don’t bother trying to validate its site since the validators will error as soon as they see no DOCTYPE.