Accessites.org
2006 May

The Pookerart site is, in a nutshell, beautiful (if you like blue). An impressive look created by something simple. It’s not the parts, but their sum. That’s said, to be honest, we did find some things that really pushed the accessibility envelope. So close was it that we felt compelled to offer of a half point in that area. We could have been harder and not allowed the site to get this far. But the rest of what we saw was so nice and well put together, we felt this site still sends a good message, the one we want to support. Hopefully the developer will buoy up the low ends.

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The Bay St. Louis Little Theatre site proves it: Not every site needs a multitude of ordered columns of content to deliver its message. And this site is one such site. Now while the simplicity of the layout didn’t earn it high marks in that area, the graders were somewhat impressed with it all the same. The simplicity works. The message is delivered. We did find a couple of issues with this site, that’s our duty, but it is passable and we feel worthy of the award level given. As developers, we know it’s a challenge.

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I became an Accessites Team Access grader the start of January this year, the “Green-Beast” himself, Mike Cherim, announced the arrival of Accessites.org as a showcase to honour great looking sites that are accessible, usable and standards-compliant. I thought this sounded quite interesting so I went to have a look. After a quick poke around the site I realised that I agreed with pretty much all of their aims so I contacted them and volunteered to join.

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The Qweos site, like its fellow Accessites-awarded brothers and sisters, has its shiny, gleaming parts right along with its slightly rusted components. It stands to reason as no site is perfect. (We’re still looking.) It’s shown here, though — awarded — and that speaks volumes as we like to remind you. Both graders assigned to this site found it enjoyable, open, and clean, and both commented that they wished they knew Spanish so they could get into it more. All-in-all, we were impressed, despite any language barriers.

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