Fellow techs from the legal services technology community provided these gems...all of which failed to impact our development/communications people:
- make them deal with it on a dial up ISP
- force them to explain what the program actually gains from this
- this branding thing has gotten way out of control...what are we - shoe salesmen?
- lack of a consistent look and feel
- you email recipient is probably going to experience your email displayed different from what you expected
- it's too expensive (network payload wise)
My initial reservations were:
- it's cruft (e.g. it doesn't add any value)
- it's insensitive to low bandwidth and maybe even mobile devices
- it doesn't adhere to 508 usability (508 aims to make websites accessible to the "disabled")
- not many people do it
Either way, it seems that none of the above held sway...moreover, when I circulated a post from Web-Worker Daily, there was immediate push-back as to how communications folks...who aren't web savvy, were going to make the call. Made me regret sending that email because at least there was a little ambiguity before I forced their hand.
Anyhow, such is life in the NPIC.
