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Accessites Turns Two
It’s almost hard to believe we’ve been at this for two years but we have. We officially threw open the doors on January 1st, 2006 so the arithmetic fools us not. We have been surprised by the level of difficulty involved with this project. From the queuing of submissions, to the actual grading, to the correspondence after the fact. Trying to be fair and consistent, trying not to let first impressions influence us overly so, trying to be thorough… the work isn’t easy, and it all adds up pretty quick. We can easily spend hours dealing with one site. We think it’s a good cause, though, so we will press on.
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Accessites and GAWDS Cooperate
With your permission you might earn two awards for the price of one.
Past award winners, please read this: Effective immediately, the crew here at Accessites have on a limited basis joined forces with the Guild of Accessible Web Designers (GAWDS) to develop a replacement for the now defunct Site-of-the-Month (SOTM) program. GAWDS members felt the quality level of sites being presented with the SOTM honor could be better. As a result an idea was hatched by both groups to use the Accessites’ submission criteria for GAWDS’ award consideration — which will be now be called the “GAWDS Web Accessibility Award” (and will be awarded quarterly, to initiate sometime in the 4th quarter of 2007). Moreover, it was decided that Accessites should actually make the nominations from our pool of awardees. We are now gatekeepers.
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One Small Change
Our hope is to find more web site gems that reach the higher award levels.
We’ve decided to make a small change around here: We’ve decided to not rely solely on submissions from visitors. We’re going to start adding a few sites to the grading queue ourselves as we happen to stumble upon them. If we find a great site out there that we deem exemplary, we want to showcase it — this will be done with the site owner’s permission, of course. We’ve never hit the bottom of our queue, but we have decided this might be a good thing to do all the same. It is because of our high rejection rate.
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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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