I recently decided to take part in the Web Standards Group, or WSG. What is WSG?
The Web Standards Group is for web designers & developers who are interested in web standards (HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS, XSLT etc.) and best practices (accessible sites using valid and semantically correct code).
Seems good for me, no? First of all, I was delighted to see that there already are other 10 members from Greece. So far so good, maybe someday we will grow enough in the CSS world.
Experienced something while using the login form though…
A nice form, eh?
A nice and simple form. More than enough text to warn you against multiple things. All good. Scrolling down… Hmm..All seems right, no fields left blank, let’s press ‘Submit’… Error? All fields required? Where? What did I do?!
There’s the little bugger
OK, I exaggerate just a bit, but their agreement checkbox (that is required for the registration to proceed) is completely buried among the text. I guess they did it to urge users to actually read their conditions, but still…I found it odd for a position.
Check it out, and become a member too.
4 comments on this post
acidsmile #1
13.Mar.06
Welcome to the group girl
Get the word out there.
Dr. Me #2
13.Mar.06
Thank you for pointing this out and how encouraging that there are members from Greece!
Anthony #3
13.Mar.06
Ok, obviously this is a common practice in order to enforce you to read the T&C. The thing is that since you’ll never read them anyway, the just make your life more difficult. And legaly, it doesn’t provide any “extra” cover, so… it’s plain useless!
Sugar #4
13.Mar.06
@ acidsmile & Dr. : thanx for the warm welcome, dearies.
@ Anthony : it’s surely placed there on purpose, that’s what struck me as odd.