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Re: Accessible NCAA Tournament Bracket 2009

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From: Simius Puer
Date: Mar 19, 2009 3:35AM

Hi Terry

Great to see such accessibility effort going into a not-for-profit project!

A few thoughts:

- The nav with anchors (which are not present btw) needs to be repeated
between regions, or possibly better to have a single instance the user has
some method to jump back to
- The data for each section is quite heavy. I imagine the users with
screen readers may benefit from some additional sub-navigation, say, to jump
between rounds.
- The maximum line length needs to be defined (talking about the
text-pages here which are currently 'liquid') and set according to
best-practice for readability. I know you are focusing on non-sighted users
primarily but overly-long lines reduce the readability for sighted users,
especially those with tunnel-vision (or even if they are just using a
high-res monitor)
- Check for XHTML validation results as you have a couple of minor errors
which might cause issues.

The help page is missing (I realise this is probably a work-in-progress) but
that also highlights the lack of a custom 404 page. Hopefully you'll never
need one but it's always a good idea to have one to assist those that do end
up there as the default one is inherantly inaccessibly and offers poor
usability and user-experience too.

Have a good day.