Safefood, a North-South body about food safety in Ireland, has produced a “factsheet” about where food comes from. It’s eight pages long. It’s a PDF. It’s 8.9MB.
What planet does Safefood come from?
If you really really want a copy of this factsheet, you can spend a few days downloading it here
The Department of Finance has just published the report by “An Bord Snip Nua”, or the “Special Group on Public Service Numbers and Expenditure Programmes”.
It’s a major report about big public sector cutbacks.
At least the Department has entered into the spirit of things. Its website’s home page has links to the PDFs of the two-volume report. And nothing else.
Exhibit#1: The Department of Finance's webpage this afternoon. You'd almost swear they'd been hacked
So you have an annual report. It’s a PDF. You tell your designer that you want a low-res version for the Web. Not too big, say 1.2 Megs.
Then you put it up on your website for people to download. Nobody checked the pictures – everything is pixellated. You leave it up for a couple of years. Nobody will notice.
That’s exactly what Bord Bia has done, with its annual report for 2006 (PDF, 1.2MB). Besides being ugly, the PDF fails on accessibility too.
Pixellated people: men in suits, or at least we think they're men, and they might be suits, from Bord Bia's annual report
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