Strange Conversations: Part Two Hundred and Fifty
Posted 28 January 2010 in Strange Conversations by Catriona
Discussing the MySchool website (my school trends well, but was still a fascist hellhole, for the record) and Nick’s perceptions of its egregious design flaws, including using red/green differentiation for data displays:
ME: Well, the colour-blind issue is a big one. Don’t they have to be compliant in some way?
NICK: Yeah, a website built with government money needs to be compliant with the Disability Discrimination Act of 1992.
ME: Exactly! Is it compliant? With that distinction [between the green and red]?
NICK: Not enough by my reading.
ME: Send them an angry e-mail! Do it!
NICK: Yeah. OK.
ME: Hurray! Fight the power!
(Long, long pause)
ME: Ooops, must be your lunchtime. Or you died. Either or.
NICK: I’m fighting the power!
ME: Oh, sorry. I didn’t mean during the conversation you were already having.
I meant “fight the power after you’ve finished chatting with your girlfriend.”
NICK: Sorry. OK.
ME: It’s hard to have a revolution and a conversation at the same time.
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michelle wrote at Jan 28, 05:15 am
What does “trends well” actually mean? I think I have heard it before and been mystified before, too.
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Catriona wrote at Jan 28, 05:31 am
Depends on the context, I would imagine. I don’t say that I’ve used this term accurately here.
The site is devoted to statistical data in such categories as numeracy, spelling, writing, punctuation and grammar etc.
So what I mean here is that my old high school is above the average compared to both local schools and Australian schools generally.
(I’m not particularly surprised by this, since it was a selective high school: students had already passed an extra exam that tested, oddly enough, numeracy, punctuation and grammar, spelling etc. before they started at the school.)