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G Plan Upholstery
The G Plan Upholstery site immediately impressed us with its modern and seemingly effective design. It’s professional, clearly communicates, offers great visuals (even some tasteful Flash), and still manages to retain good accessibility. It’s a full site with lots of pages so we can appreciate the effort that went into making it. We were so impressed that we had difficulty in deciding on the award level — it is on the cusp of being eligible for our coveted “Classic Universal Design” award.
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GAWDS Site Re-Design Competition
The Guild of Accessible Web Designers (GAWDS) is having a re-design competition. If you’re an accessible web developer, you might want to give this a go. It involves the creation of a single page template based on the mark-up seen on the home page — à la Zen Garden style. Just imagine if you win; the fame, the fortune, and the members of the opposite sex flinging themselves at you. How could you possibly pass up this opportunity? Here’s a reposting of the details as provided by Jim Byrne:
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Why Bother with Web Accessibility?
As other have done before us, we’re going to try and make a business case for web accessibility. We’re doing it by way of a short presentation. This sort of thing shouldn’t really be needed. The obvious ethical and moral side of web accessibility should be enough to motivate people, but we know that’s not always the case. Without further ado, here’s our take on answering the often asked question: “Why Web Accessibility Makes Sense.”
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GAWDS Launches Accessibility Training Course
An outstanding comprehensive self-study training course on the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 1.0 covering Priority 1 and 2 (A and AA) web accessibility checkpoints is now available as a training resource on the Guild of Accessible Web Designers (GAWDS) website. This exclusive — and free — course offers articles, techniques, tutorials, and more, but the course’s introduction page explains it better…
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