Odeon Schmodeon
by Paul Miller
So Matthew Somerville has been forced to take down his accessible version of the Odeon Cinemas website. In my personal opinion it's a particularly stupid decision by Odeon and I for one will be taking my film watching business elsewhere in the future.
The site (which I used to use quite regularly) wasn't just better for disabled people who might use screen readers but was just better full stop. It loaded quicker, had everything in the right place and didn't crash your machine every two minutes. And Matthew never even attempted to make any money out of his version. He just did it because he knew how.
You can still use Matthew's Accessible National Rail Enquiries site to see how much better his versions are.
I've just popped a copy of our Disablism pamphlet in the post to the Chief Exec of Odeon.