Another online CD shop... This time a small label in the UK, specializing in world music, old recordings, etc.
I really enjoy a lot of CDs this label has.
Here is what I wrote them:
From: AlexSchröder Subject: ALT-texts and the images on the ARC Music website Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 20:01:06 +0100
Hello,
I just got your catalogue by regular mail, and decided to take a look at the Fado CDs of yours.
I often use a Text Browser to browse the web. On your website, you seem not to use so-called ALT-Texts for the images you use in your menus. This makes it harder to navigate than necessary, since now I get to see the filenames of the pictures, instead of some textual representation. Hopefully it will be possible to change this whenever do you next website overhaul... 😄 Here is an example of how the title page looks in my browser:
[archeadershort] [25aniv]
T H E N A M E F O R T O P Q U A L I T Y F O L K & W O R L D M U S I C
Welcome to the ARC Music WEBSITE. Here you can find one of the finest
selections of top quality folk & world music from all over the world -
Australian Didgeridoo to the Celtic Harp to Egyptian Tabla & beyond...
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[w1nrsaudio] [arcartNEW3] [w1djs2]
[w1mo] [w1genenq]
[getacat]
[w1filmtvusagebar]
[w1cocdfind]
[distrib]
[w1awards]
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Our on-line ordering system, provided by www.shopcreator.net is 100% secure.
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At other times, the ALT-Texts are lacking, but it is not that important – eg. when I look at the CD list itself, I do not mind that much. Here, for example, there is some sort of number instead of the ALT-Text. Perhaps an empty ALT-Text (” “) would be enough – then I would not see the file name, at least.
| Goto Home Page | | PORTUGAL _ FADO Index by Category | |———————————————————— Index by Artist |[1759-72] EUCD1759 Great Voices of Fado, Vol. 2 Midprice | Index by Item Code|Click here Following Queens of Fado Vol. 1 and 2 and Great |to hear a Voices of Fado Vol. 1, we now present Great View order form |realaudio Voices of Fado Vol. 2 including such famous Fado | clip of artists as Amália Rodrigues, Bévinda and Cristina View order form | this CD Branco, as well as the male singers Jorge | Fernando, João Braga, Rodrigo Costa Félix and World Music Fusion|[wantmain] many others._
And here somebody obviously thought of providing an ALT-Text, but forgot to write one 😄
|------------------------------------------------------------
|{short EUCD1394 RAÍZES DO FADO - Roots of Fado
|description
|of image} Raízes do Fado is a Portuguese group consisting
| Francisco Fialho, Matilde Larguinho, Antonio
| [Ra] Carvalho and Alfredo Pena. The name of the group
| means ?Roots of Fado?. Francisco and Matilde are
|[wantmain] singing traditional and own Fados accompanied by
| Antonio on gui-tarra portuguesa (a long-necked
Note how the image “wantmain” should probably have an ALT-Text such as “Click here to order”.
Anyway, I still like the music. 😄
Alex.
Well, there was something else to complain about – when I wanted to order the CDs, I had to have JavaScript active... Sent them another mail... Lets see what happens...
From: AlexSchröder Subject: javascript on your website Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 20:05:03 +0100
Hi,
I was just about to order some CDs with my text-browser, and now I find that I cannot click on the links, because they require Javascript... Now I have to switch to my other heavy-weight browser which I usually do not need, how annoying. ;)
Anyway, since you really do not need Javascript for links, I think I’d let you know so that you can think about it when you start the next website redesign.
Alex.