Message sent this afternoon to another employee who posted accommodation information on our internal Intranet, with dimensions in colonial units only. This information was copied from our public web site, and is really useful and comprehensive - except for one thing. Stuff in brackets wasn't in what I sent her.
Carleton Hi _____________ - I found this link on the Library, Train Services page. It's excellent, but there's two quibbles. Dimensions On the 3-D Tour pages, the dimensions of the rooms are given in colonial units only. No other country uses these, and this makes it difficult for our agents to understandably describe the rooms to anyone visiting from another country. Would it be possible to add the standard (metric) dimensions as well? I can help with the figures if wanted. I've noticed the same thing on [our public web site], even when another language is chosen. [Our public web site offers English, French, German and Spanish options.] To someone from Germany, the description 3'6" x 6'6", for example, is completely incomprehensible. I know that we want to communicate with visitors from other countries using concepts that they know and will understand. The timetable text is user-friendly in that both standard metric, and colonial, measurements are given. [It should be, I wrote it.]
