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In Retirement Services
The In Retirement Services site is bright and cheerful with nice use of colours that has been re-developed from an existing site. Designed with the older user in mind, the site serves its target audience well with good clear navigation and supporting pages that offer practical user assistance. Some elements of the design are particularly notable. For example, even with images disabled, this site is still easy on the eye and pleasant to use. Meanwhile, look under the hood and you’ll find a site navigation menu that could be described as a model of usability.
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KarovaHost
The Karova Host site is a good example of a Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) driven site with strong visual appeal. The grey, greens and black work well together and it’s not often you get so much attention paid to a footer. Colour contrast on links and footer text, however, needs improving. A nice logo shows that simple is usually best. Valid, well structured, code has been used with headings on menus which screen reader users will appreciate and definition lists, abbreviation and <address> elements show attention has been paid to detail. Image replacement has been used extensively in an effort to keep images in the CSS. However, whilst the intentions here are to be commended, the implementation has to be revisited. In some cases, users of text only browsers are served up with significantly less text than is in an image.
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Philippine Web Accessibility Group
The Philippine Web Accessibility Group site proves to be a solidly built and easily navigable site. Great attention has been paid to making the site accessible with clean markup, a breadcrumb trail and extended image descriptions. However, some areas fell short of best practice, including poorly chosen alternative text, badly styled links and no custom error pages.
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Avenue Designers
The Avenue Designers site has a clean design that highlights the typical aspects of a web design business. Its straightforward organization of the content compliments the simple yet effective design of the site. This results in a favourable experience for the user in terms of easily finding the necessary information.
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