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Re: Your favorite samples of websites that are "cool" looking, yet accessible

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From: Paul.Adam@dars.state.tx.us
Date: Aug 12, 2011 12:42PM

Yahoo and eBay are examples of flashy, mainstream sites that are accessible. I think Amazon is but ran it through WAVE and it had the most errors out of the 3.

Apple's site is also accessible as expected, 0 errors on their homepage.

For all these companies it makes good business sense for their products and services to be available to the widest audience possible.

Accessible sites do NOT have to look boring.

Good question!

Paul Adam
Accessibility Specialist
Center for Policy and Innovation
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-----Original Message-----
From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 11:00 AM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: [WebAIM] Your favorite samples of websites that are "ool" looking, yet accessible

Hi guys

I am preparing for a lecture on web accessibility for GUI/web
designers as part of a university user interface design course.
I want to display an example of a web page that looks cool visually,
but is also accessible, to demonstrate that accessibility does not
have to mean plain text, one color and no Javascript functionality.
Does anyone have a favorite site that looks visually very neat, has
lot os information, yet is accessible for screen reader users?
Thanks very much
-Birkir