Odeon Cinema Website: At Last

[SpicyDuck]

New Odeon Website

Finally, they got around to updating the Odeon website so now you can actually use it in Firefox.

I think it looks quite nice, personally. Also, they've used HTML and CSS for the new site but unfortunately, it doesn't validate. But you can enlarge the text etc, so it has taken some things into account.

Anyway, at least it's better than before. The old site sucketh'd.

Phil.

 

[Mr_L]

WOW, the Odeon gets its finger out. It's a lot better than the old one and it works in FF. Shame about all of those validation errors, though.

 

[Deathwish]

Oh wow, they hired a proper developer!

Much better than anything they had before, at least it works in FF now.

 

[punky_munky]

What's with the flash??

Who cares that it doesn't validate. Seeing it won't work in a screen reader at all they won't even be thinking about validation. (although do blind people go to the cinema much?) It's better than the last site but it's still a big pile of crap.

 

[philio16]

Some films have audio descriptions for the partially sighted if I remember correctly

 

[SpicyDuck]

Some films have audio descriptions for the partially sighted if I remember correctly

Me and my brother watched the first ten minutes of a film once, with audio descriptions and it was the funniest thing ever.

..."The sun sets in the distance, behind a lighthouse, creating a beautiful black silhouette on the surface of the sea".

Phil.

 

[Inquisitor]

Me and my brother watched the first ten minutes of a film once, with audio descriptions and it was the funniest thing ever.

..."The sun sets in the distance, behind a lighthouse, creating a beautiful black silhouette on the surface of the sea".

Phil.

Makes you wonder why they bother... a blind person wouldn't be able to visualise it anyway

 

[Bloo_Fish]

Makes you wonder why they bother... a blind person wouldn't be able to visualise it anyway

Maybe they weren’t blind all their life


Good on Odeon to do something about their site, shame they didn’t do a good job. Oh well, at least i can use it without having to switch to IE

 

[Gman]

Me and my brother watched the first ten minutes of a film once, with audio descriptions and it was the funniest thing ever.

..."The sun sets in the distance, behind a lighthouse, creating a beautiful black silhouette on the surface of the sea".

Phil.

I managed to turn that on somehow on my freeview box on the pc. took me the best part of 30 mins to work out it was audio descriptions and not just part of the film lol.

 

[Inquisitor]

Maybe they weren’t blind all their life

True

 

[philio16]

Makes you wonder why they bother... a blind person wouldn't be able to visualise it anyway

This is going pretty off topic...but art is about imagination, they'll recreate what they here in their mind as what they would reckon it looks like.....at least they'll be 100% happy with the image whereas fully sighted people will be like "nah thats a rubbish angle...." and so on

 

[SpicyDuck]

This is going pretty off topic...but art is about imagination, they'll recreate what they here in their mind as what they would reckon it looks like.....at least they'll be 100% happy with the image whereas fully sighted people will be like "nah thats a rubbish angle...." and so on

I like your point.

But, having never seen such simple yet beautiful things as a sunset, I imagine it's quite hard for them to actually "see" something, as their brain would never have developed that way.

At least for people born blind.

I imagine Audio descriptions are for people who are partially sighted or became blind/partially sighted in later life.

Phil.