Accessites.org
2006 April

The Accessible Web Studio site is a really nice site in a number of areas. On the surface it’s all techie business, very contemporary. Under the surface it has so much going for it. So much thought was put in. If one looks one may find two significant issues, though — as reflected in the scoring — but there’s so much good stuff, that it worked out favorably for the submitter in the end. This is a good example of that nice middle area between straight accessibility and the other end (which shall not be named).

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The Noteworthy (2) site is a re-submission and a good example of what can be done when a serious, industry-leading developer takes the insights gleaned from the original Noteworthy submission and applies them to the next. Every point was improved, tweaked, and perfected. And despite the huge difficulties in earning a top-level award from us — it is very challenging — this site makes the grade. In fact, this is our first-ever, Classic Universal Design recipient, earning the highest marks to date. Very impressive.

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Converted Contrast is one of those challenges accessible web developers must contend with, else risk leaving users behind. The type of user being left behind in this case, specifically, would be one with color-blindness or a related vision disability. To the unchallenged web user a colored site will indeed be colored. The reds will be red, the greens, green. To the color-blind user, though, those same reds will be a medium gray and, this is where the problem lies, so, too, will the greens. Obviously medium gray on medium gray leaves no contrast, and for some users this is going to be a big problem.

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The Duke Law iBlawg web log is powered by WordPress, which is a very powerful, very well done bit of blogware as some call it. Many people modify and theme this type of application. Some do it justice, so do not. Being this a Duke Law blog, justice was served. The designer did a great job on it, and a ton of modifications were made so we know this did take a high level of skill. As usual there were aspects we didn’t like (one in particular stands out), and points were taken, but in this case, the good outweighs the bad — at least enough to be featured here. All in all it’s a good job.

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