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The Art of Accessibility

The Lotus from the Mud site immediately impressed us. Clean lines and whitespace, professional, and really great looking — a really sophisticated, artistic site. Smiling from this initial impression, we dug deeper and were both delighted and saddened by what we found. Like most sites we grade, the turn-ons were countered by some turn-offs. We didn’t find anything that couldn’t be fixed with ease, indicating this site has a good foundation on which the developer can work from.

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The Bernard Herenmode site has paid a lot of attention to accessibility, which is a rare thing amongst commercial sites. Pages are well structured with sensible use of headings and lists where appropriate. Links within content have been made clearly visible, although slightly overused. Text resizes without breaking layout for the most part — logo goes wandering a little. Page titles and meta data are specific to each page and a favicon helps for all those tabbed browser users. With 13 tabs open, yes, favicons help!

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The GeoFeat site is a fine example of a site with an effective brand — “the directory with a difference.” The first visual impressions gives the user a very good idea of what the site is about and what it’s trying to achieve along with it’s complimentary content. The brand is further amplified with the site’s clean and earth-like design. As well, the site also demonstrates strong semantics and a strong layout of the content.

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The ByUsers site impressed upon us a few things as soon as we loaded the home page: simplicity and open design were two. The purpose of the site was made clear right away, so that was yet another thing we appreciated. We like that: being able to know what a site is about with a few seconds of perusal is a very positive thing. There were some things we didn’t know, of course, such as the tie-in to Virgin Media, but we’re realists and know we can’t get it all in the title and opening paragraph. We did assume that those for whom this site is applicable would know all they needed immediately.

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