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Inside the Mind of a Grader
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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Public Thanks: Part II
We get by with a little help from our friends! This is how we feel right now. Thus we felt it was high time for another round of thanks. Sure we get some people who can do nothing more than to write to complain, to shed focus on some minute flaw and tell us how we blew it. But those folks are few and far between. Others — most — have been very supportive. We’re glad because we don’t get paid and this project has proven to be a major undertaking. Each award given represents roughly 8 to 12 man-hours of hard work!
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Toggle Our FAQs
No longer in use: We just added a new feature to this site. Specifically, we added and implemented Thierry Koblentz’s Toggle DL script. The script allows users with JavaScript or “active scripting” enabled to hide and show the answers to our FAQs. This saves space on the page and allows an easier overview of our questions, a real usability plus. As our FAQs grow over time, this feature will be even more valuable to our site’s visitors. And if scripting isn’t supported, the FAQs reveal themselves fully — and the how-to instructions disappear. All good, and fully accessible to all site users. Two words: Very cool! And two more words: Thanks Thierry!
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Accesskey Settings
No longer in use: Accesskeys are platform-specific navigational keyboard shortcuts. Need an example? If you’re using Windows, hold your Alt key and press the letter F. This should open the “File” menu on your browser. These keys can also be used on websites to aid site visitors, but due to the wide variety of user agents, UAs, or web browsing devices, platform conflicts are almost unavoidable. Thus, their real world use and value is highly questionable, and has been debated hotly at times. Offering them is a good thing to do, but implementing them can create usability problems.
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