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Quality Awards

The Optimalworks site immediately impressed us with its crisp visual image and sense of purpose. The visuals were big, bold and clear with a large readable font size and good use of supporting images/icons — all of which contributed to a strong design that was both bright and cheerful. Then we switched images off and, to our surprise and delight, the site still looked good! We also noted the extensive meta text — another demonstration of good attention to detail on this site from the ground up. With the odd exception, keyboard navigation was an absolute breeze, thanks to the very clear onfocus link highlighting. No messing about with subtle changes here or unintuitive tab ordering either. The link highlighting hit us right in the eye (even on graphical links) and the tab order was exactly as expected given the visual display. All of which made navigating this site by keyboard a real no-brainer. All in all, the kind of keyboard friendly site that should be the norm — not the exception.

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The Global Issues site offers tremendous user support and a remarkable attentiveness to semantic detail. The structure of this site is, overall, well-defined and clear. Visitor support includes optional text preferences, instruction in how to best use their browser via text resizing or alternative navigation, and an excellent 404 error which suggests the most probable pages you might have been trying to find.

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The Regelingenbank Stadskanaal site sports a liquid layout, a clean, intuitive interface and plenty of navigation options and fallbacks are provided. Serious attention has been paid to accessibility features and it is in this area the site excels. When providing so many accessibility features, it’s not always easy to fit them into the site design but it’s been done neatly and judiciously. The site doesn’t face many challenges in terms of delivering rich media but what it does deliver, it delivers in a rock solid way.

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Kuba Zwolinski’s SnowDog web site is an excellent example of a meld of unique design and standards-based web accessibility. The aged-paper and tape motif is elegantly put together, resizes well, and just plain looks great. From an accessibility perspective, Kuba has clearly put some thought into the site’s underpinnings. The site is easy to navigate by keyboard, since links have strong :focus states and are well-organized. The site also makes use of a script to allow users to set their own access keys, which is a great way to offer custom keyboard shortcuts.

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