How not to…

31/07/2009

…have text on maps

Filed under: Newspapers,Websites — hownot @ 7:00 am
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The Irish Times sometimes adds maps to news stories on its webpages. These maps are sometimes credited to “Irish Times Studio” or “Irish Times Premedia”.

A typical example is from a story in today’s edition about the reopened Cork-Midleton rail line.

The text in these pop-up maps is often very difficult to read or unreadable – and completely inaccessible of course. Letters collapse and smash into each other, as you sometimes get when fonts go missing, like a very long and terrible train crash.

Exhibit #1: Map in today's Irish Times

Exhibit #1: Map in today's Irish Times

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