In a current thread about a website of photographs of holocaust survivors, Dakota Jackson complained that the site is essentially inaccessible for people, like him, on dial-up.
In response, someone essentially asked, incredulously, whether he was using dial-up by force of circumstance or luddite choice.
Seeing as how I now spend several months a year in a dial-up only community, I have some sympathy for Dakota's frustration.
For me, the solution is to tell my browser, by default, not to render images. If I really want to see a site's images, I override this once I'm in the site. Then I go make coffee, because the images don't exactly load lickety-split.
So some questions...
How many of us are stuck back in the dark ages?
What strategies do people stuck with medeival technology use to surf the modern web?
Do those of you with speed and bandwidth to spare give a hoot, when you are designing your sites, about those of us who live in a time warp?
Are you designing your sites with smartphones, which are also in some respects a tad primitive, in mind?
Cheers
P.S. This summer, the community a few miles up the coast from me is getting high speed. I figure that the community library is going to see a serious boom in business from those of us that the cable company did not favour.
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