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  On 1/24/2025 at 8:55 PM, Tony Galiani said:

Since I used to work in this area, I ran the site through an accessibility checker for WCAG2.2 and it got a score of 68 with 265 identified issues.  However, this is not an American based company or web site so HS is not required to comply to ADA standards.  (Heck, many American companies do not manage to comply.)   They should meet Japanese requirements but I have no idea how they relate to our ADA.  In my travels I see quite a bit of accessibility options that may be good for that country but do not comply with our standards.  And, of course, US requirements are constantly evolving - often technology is put in place first and then issues sorted out after the fact.

Tony

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I used ADA as a topic descriptor. I didn't know what Japan called. It looks like Japan calls it JIS X 8341.

 

Inobu

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A lot of the ada design process for sites actually can be a good process in site redesign in general as it makes you think carefully about all parts of content and nav you have on the screen and how they relate, hierarchy, and placement. Also helps as you tag content bits well which many times is not done well but helps if you redesign or reskin later. I found ADA forced the client to have to think about these things (ie they wanted the compliance), but were unwilling to do a lot of this just for the sake of the content and site design. Content is the very poor step child now, use to be the main thing, but no more. 
 

like tony mentioned many times itโ€™s the rapidly evolving technology that is the biggest pain in the ass to keep stuff compliant. 
sort of on par with keeping stuff working in general on a bunch of browsers and platforms at the same time.

 

jeff

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Anybody else get a bonus 300 points added to their HS account?  The note says "If you don't use these points within the validity period, it will expire." but does not actually say what the validity period is ๐Ÿค”.  And yes these points are shown in my account, so not some sort of scam.

 

Not likely to make a difference for me though as their prices are a bit higher than PJ and the points won't make really change that.

 

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Hugh, i have 318 points but thats probably should be there from last orders. No messages anywhere on any expiring. Where do you see the expiration notice?

 

jeff 

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bill937ca
  On 2/12/2025 at 3:17 AM, RS18U said:

Anybody else get a bonus 300 points added to their HS account?  The note says "If you don't use these points within the validity period, it will expire." but does not actually say what the validity period is ๐Ÿค”.  And yes these points are shown in my account, so not some sort of scam.

 

 

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(About points)

37Hobby Search points are only valid on this website.

381 point is equivalent to 1 yen (JPY) and can be used to receive discount on the product cost of an order.

39On purchase of products at Hobby Search, 1% of the purchased product cost will be awarded as points.

40Points will be added to the customer's account AFTER the order is dispatched from Hobby Search.

41The points are valid for up to 1 year from the date that the customer had last been awarded Hobby Search Points to their account, unless expiry is otherwise specified (such as rewards for giveaway campaign etc.)

42Points from different accounts cannot be transferred, and cannot be converted to cash.

 

[Revised on August 3rd 2018]

[Revised on December 6th 2018]

[Revised on July 2nd 2022]

[Revised on Jan 31th 2024]

 

https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/terms/

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  On 2/12/2025 at 4:22 AM, cteno4 said:

Hugh, i have 318 points but thats probably should be there from last orders. No messages anywhere on any expiring. Where do you see the expiration notice?

 

jeff 

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In this case its at the bottom of the email that 'granted' me the points, and sort of implies point 41 from @bill937ca post above.  I knew about the 1 year expiry, but thought this may have a different one.  Gives me 900 points.

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bill937ca
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Something going on at Hobby Search. The site was down about 6am today and its now 11am and it is still down.

 

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System under maintenance.

Thank you very much for visiting Hobby Search.
Due to system maintenance, our website is temporarily unavailable.
We apologize for your inconvenience, and your understanding is greatly appreciated.

 

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They moved. There was an announcement:


We would like to express our sincere gratitude for your continued support of Hobby Search.


We are informing you that, due to business expansion, our head office will be relocating to the address below.

 

With this move, all of our employees will renew their commitment and work even harder to provide you with better and more fulfilling services.

 

[New Address]
2F Hongo Fuji Building
4-9-22 Hongo Bunkyo Tokyo,
113-0033 Japan

 

[Relocation schedule (dates stated in Japan time GMT+9)]
March 14th - 15th, 2025


During this period, our website will be temporarily unavailable.

 

Please note that on March 14th (Friday), we will be open as usual.


However, we will not be able to process shipments or respond to email inquiries.
Thank you for your understanding and cooperation in advance.

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Server work is never fun and full of Murphy lawsโ€ฆ Happy to not do that stuff anymore.

 

jeff

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