Accessites.org
2006 March

The Cyonix site is another example of clean design presented in a forthright and appealing way. We noted quite a few features on this site that certain users may find useful, one being a style sheet changer offering text-only and high-contrast options. There’s some real depth offered in this design, and it’s always nice to see that level of effort given. The site did show us a few flaws or things we didn’t like, but we suppose that’ll always be the case. It takes hours to grade a site so we do tend to find things, but the averaged scores don’t lie to us.

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The NatKo website, home of the Nationale Koordinationsstelle Tourismus, gave us smiles right from the start. It has a certain look we found welcoming. Simple but elegant in a way. It marries well that ever-elusive balance. All business, all comfort and familiarity, all-in-one. Then we ripped the top off the site and peered inside. Hmm, we discovered it was pretty neat inside too, what with its semantic build and attention to detail. Very nice, very accessible. A solid site indeed.

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Web accessibility can be a bit of a mystery. If you were to ask a dozen people to define it you’d probably get a dozen different answers. What makes a website accessible may vary quite a bit from person to person. Some will key in on making the site available to all sorts of user agents like browsers, cell phones, televisions, and more. Others will respond with a focus on making sites available to disabled users — at which point they should elaborate because “disabled” is a far-reaching word. Once overheard, a person muttered that web accessibilities meant making sites for the blind; nothing more.

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The WebDesign UK site is very similar to so many mainstream business sites we see. It blends in with the rest of the crowd well; it doesn’t appear accessible. Yet, there is a big difference between this site and the rest of those of which we speak: It is accessible, or at least it strives to be. And it succeeds on this front quite well. Some things were done which take away from this, but the fact that it’s here and that it’s getting awarded tells a more complete story. This site, while certainly not perfect, does enough right to make a good impression. An example to those “other” sites that don’t seem to care.

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