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!
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We’ll Miss You, Jack
We were both shocked and saddened to learn of the sudden death of Jack Pickard at the weekend.
Jack was a part of Accessites.org from its earliest days and, although he had taken a back seat from active Team Access duty more recently, he was still there, in the background, ready to lend a hand if needed.
We’ve lost a great colleague with a wicked sense of humour and the Web has lost a talented developer. Our thoughts and sympathies go out to his family.
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Law Office of Lainey Feingold
Law Office of Lainey Feingold, the business site of disability rights lawyer Lainey Feingold, was designed by Mike Cherim specifically to conform to the level of AAA under the WCAG 2.0. And having already officially achieved this status, there was hope we might have our first Timeless Universal Design Award on our hands!
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Online Video Captioning
Guest author, Jen Rohrig, looks at online video captioning on US TV networks.
Although I am hard of hearing myself, there was a time when I didn’t consider captions for online videos to be of great importance, since I rarely watched videos online. More recently, I’ve been watching some new online shows and would have been disappointed if captions hadn’t been available. In addition I’ve become more annoyed that interviews with favorite actors are being put online without captions as are clips and previews from TV shows or movies. Interviews can be especially troublesome because some actors either have strong accents or talk very fast — either of which can make it nearly impossible for me to understand them, even with the volume turned up on both the computer and my hearing aid.
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Le Web Accessible
Le Web Accessible, the web site of web accessibility consultant Jean-François Naud, offers numerous touches which demonstrate a solid accessible web site. The site exhibits conscientious application of semantic HTML and headings, links are clearly evident on mouse-activated hover, and the layout is streamlined and simple, keeping distractions or potentially confusing content sequences to a minimum.
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