Under Construction
This is Accessites.org and it’s currently under construction. But it won’t be for long. It’ll hopefully launch on January 1st, 2006. Since you’re here, and since you are perhaps interested, let me tell you what this site will be about and what purpose it will serve.
Accessites.org will be a showcase and awards-recognition site meant to illuminate websites — and the developers and designers who make them — which shatter the misconception that accessible web sites are boring and basic. It’s not so and we intend to prove it, or rather, we’ll ask others to furnish the evidence for us. Awards will be given to those who succeed at giving us the evidence we seek. And you will bear witness.
Upon furnishing this proof, as word spreads, we hope more and more web developers and designers will embrace the challenge (oh, yes, it is a challenge) and start making website that not only look fantastic, but are accessible, functional, standards-compliant, and are built to the strictest specifications using the latest “best practices” in all facets of their construction. Before you know it, all sites will meet and exceed the “universality” we heard about from Tim Berners-Lee back in the beginning.
“The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect.” – Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director
Inventor of the World Wide Web
Awards won’t be given away like candy. It won’t be easy to make the cut, but those who do succeed, will be, by far, the best of the best. The cream of the crop. Do be sure to come back after we launch so you can be one of those who get to watch, first-hand, web accessibility go mainstream.
