This is my personal view. It's a good argument - however using your logic then we shouldn't be providing bbc.co.uk if we can't cater for 100% of the audience. Truth is, bbc.co.uk doesn't cater for 100% of the audience - compromises are made to make the user experience better for the majority.
For example, the XHTML homepage launch the other day - I wasn't involved (someone around here will have been and will chime in), but I bet when it changed some users got a page without CSS, or some other problem. I also bet these users complained as bitterly as you are about DRM. However, we all recognise the benefits of XHTML move right? So, back to DRM and the "all or nothing" problem - compromises have to be made (for all the reasons laid out before - as much as everyone doesn't like them) and some people will complain. /accessiblity - looks like someone made a mistake. It happens. To equate this to "Auntie doesn't care for minorities" is a little silly. J -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Crossland Sent: 09 February 2007 12:19 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] RE: [backstage] RE: [backstage] RE: [backstage] RE: [backstage] RE: [backstage] £1.2 billion question (or RE: [backstage] BBC Bias??? >Click and Torrents) On 09/02/07, Jason Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > its deemed 'good enough' for the general public (the vast, vast > majority of which just want to watch Eastenders/Dragons Den/whatever > the next day). The vast, vast majority of the general public have no problems using the regular BBC website. But there is an "accessible" version. Why? (Having said that, looking at http://www.bbc.co.uk/accessibility/ now I see most of the images are 404ing and the navbar at the top says "[an error occurred while processing this directive]" - so I guess Auntie doesn't care for minorities that much afterall...) > Nobody is saying that this situation is ideal. DRM is a means to an end. The ends justify the means? What what what? :-) -- Regards, Dave - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
