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Healing Rooms Ypenburg
The charm of the Healing Rooms Ypenburg site isn’t immediately obvious, but once someone enlarges the site’s text there is an instant wow-factor. This site is one of those rare sites that is completely and utterly elastic: all elements, including images, move and do so in all directions. Deeper into the build we were also pleased to see language spans being used where English was inserted into the content. This isn’t what we would call a multilingual site, but the marked language changes are in accordance with the WCAG 1.0 requirements.
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Approved Design Consultancy
The Approved Design site, for most users, is immediately enjoyable what with it sexy design — we can say that, right? Unfortunately, for other users much of the site’s impact and meaning will be lost if imagery isn’t supported. This hurt the score considerably. By the numbers, though, considering all the aspects of development we grade on and take into account, this site did make the cut — its style sheet error has been justified. The reason is simple: for all areas we found lacking, other areas impressed us enough to help even the score.
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Joshua Kendall
The Joshua Kendall site is an example of functional stark simplicity. This is the first purely monochromatic site we’ve awarded. Its signature seems to be padding and margin measured in feet. Tons of whiteness flows between the black and gray streams of content. We like it, yet something seemed to be missing when we graded. Making a site like this is bit chancy as the designer is left with few tools with which to work — it takes some courage. Aside from a few issues we noted, we would have liked to see more attention to the typography, and a spot color would have been nice. But these are subjective concerns.
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The WCAG 2.0: What a Whopper
A twisted and winding path to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, WCAG, 2.0 compliance When you pull together the WCAG 2.0 draft, understanding WCAG 2.0, techniques and about baselines document, and paste them together into Word with Arial size 10 font, they give a total of 518 pages, containing over 160,000 words and more than 11,000 paragraphs.
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