We aim to prove that accessible, usable web sites built with universality and standards in mind need not be boring. We will show you artfully crafted sites made by some of today’s most progressive web developers. Join us in honoring them and the sites they meticulously and lovingly build. If you know of a site that meets our criteria, please submit it today!
Welcome to Accessites.org
Accessibility Evaluators Aren’t Worthless
As seen on our Resources page, there are a number of web accessibility evaluation tools available to developers. Most accessible web developers fall into three groups as it pertains to the value of these tools. Either they love them, hate them, or don’t really understand how to use them. The purpose of this article is to encourage those who love them to not overly depend on them, those who hate them to stop being haters, and those who don’t understand them to come away with an open mind.
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Coffee.net
The CoffeeNet site is a vast site offering a wealth of content that may be of interest to anyone going to or living in the Seattle, Washington area. It covers restaurants, coffee shops, entertainment, and a lot more. Everything and anything anyone might want or need, and, as it concerns this web site, “everyone” would include most disabled users because the site was designed with accessibility in mind. It shows.
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Pacifica Training
The Pacifica Training site is smart looking, has a nice logo and oozes neatness. Use of graphics is minimal with only two background images used on the whole site! The site had a nice liquid layout which performs well across desktop browsers and text resizes without too many issues. We felt that a couple of more images to support content wouldn’t have hurt. The code generated by this custom WordPress theme is for the most part, clean, lean and semantic.
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The John Slatin Fund Accessibility Project
If those who can help spread the load, it’ll be beneficial to all.
If you’re savvy in the art of accessibility, volunteer yourself to be paired with a company that signs up for an evaluation of their site. You do have to commit to getting it done within ten days, and it will be a generous contribution of your time, but it is a good cause. And if you are a company with a web site, this is worth your while. It’s an ideal opportunity for companies that wonder about the accessibility of their site
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