Accessites.org
2006 November

The Pannasmontata Templates site is bilingual offering its content in both English and Italian. That immediately impressed us. We also liked the looks of the site with its four top-boxes — it seems to draw in the audience well. But with the good we always find some things that drag it down. In this case it’s Google’s generated deprecated mark-up but we don’t know a way around this. We also noted a number of other issues that concerned us. All-in-all there is a good level of effort that went into the site and it really excelled in many areas. It’s pointing in the right direction, but it’s journey isn’t complete.

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The Forlagetforlag web site is one that exemplifies the fact that design doesn’t have to be complex or difficult to make to be effective. This type of design arguably has broad appeal; not everyone will love it, but those that don’t shouldn’t be put off by it either — both this site’s graders really liked it. It’s another site that proves less is sometimes more. As is usually the case, we found some things that we wish were done better, but we also appreciate the effort made and in some areas it really shows and provides a significant user benefit. Language support, for which we gave half a point instead of the typical zero, was done better than most. We wish the entire site was translated, but what was offered was pretty good with consideration to usefulness.

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This is third of a series of three articles. In Parts 1 (one) and 2 (two) of this series of articles I’ve been looking at the issues created by dyslexia and discussed, in detail, how colour contrast can adversely affect page readability. However, there is far more to designing dyslexia-friendly pages than just reducing colour contrast. On the plus side, it is likely that these changes will have a positive effect on page readability for all users.

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Donate to Joe Clark’s Micropatronage We interrupt our regularly scheduled three part series on Designing for Dyslexics to bring you this public service announcement:

Love him or hate him, Joe Clark needs your dough… or money, moolah, cash, clams, or whatever name you give your currency. Joe is looking for day-to-day survival money while he raises $7 million (Canadian) to fund the Open & Closed Project. This is an accessibility research project aimed at developing accessible media standards in four areas:

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