Unusable navigation

[James]

Hi,

Have a look at GISC's website (http://www.gisc.co.uk/Home/default.asp)

The left hand navigation is awful. Because the sublinks pop up all over the links it makes it impossible to select the main link you want! And hey! - I've just noticed they're not even sublinks, they're just descriptions you can't click on. I hate this type of navigation!

[David]

Actually, the "About GISC" link does have sub-links but the others are all descriptions. Not only unusable but inconsistent. An abomination!

[francis]

Agh - appalling. This is another standards body (like The Institute Of Customer Service) that seem to pay little concern to their site. The ICS site is more visually pleasing and they've made the effort to stop using frames, but I wonder why these bodies pay little attention to other people's standards (I'm thinking of the ever more legally binding WCAG here).

The International Standards Organisation (http://www.iso.ch/iso/en/ISOOnline.frontpage) is, on a cursory glance, better. Although the site doesn't validate.

Maybe there's a piece of research begging to be done here? What standards organisations with a Web presence are only interested in their own standards?