wrote:
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/

I have to say that the new TfL site looks amateurish and is needlessly
difficult to read.

1. I use Windows XP Home and IE 6.0, and with my normal settings the
layout is a mess. For example on the Live Travel News page, the heading
is partly obliterated by a detached part of the blue highlighting of the
menu item above it. The "last updated" note partly covers "Trams Rail"
on the line of tabs. I can only correct the layout glitches by reducing
the IE text size to Smallest, which is too small to read comfortably.

2. Lots of the text is either grey on white or light blue on white.
Why have TfL opted for such poor contrast? In any case, grey text on
forms is often used to indicate an option that is not available, yet TfL
are using it widely instead of black.


TfL's document standards are actually very good, mandating minimum font
sizes on paper documents for example, with very strict rules for how New
Johnston typeface is used. Obviously they can't be applied in full on
the website, but they could have applied the spirit of them more
effectively.

I shall be taking these matters up with TfL directly.
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Richard J.
(to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address)