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Thread: Your favorite samples of websites that are "ool" looking, yet accessible
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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Thu, Aug 04 2011 10:00AM
Subject: Your favorite samples of websites that are "ool" looking, yet accessible
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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
From: Alan M. Dalton
Date: Thu, Aug 04 2011 10:18AM
Subject: Re: Your favorite samples of websites that are "ool" looking, yet accessible
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Hi Birkir,
Here's the website that won Ireland's "Accessible eGovernment Award" this
year: http://www.kildareleisure.ie . I think it looks cool!
Regards,
Alan.
Alan Dalton
- Accessibility Development Advisor
- Access Officer
National Disability Authority, 25 Clyde Road, Dublin 4, Ireland.
http://www.nda.ie/
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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
From: Jens Korff
Date: Thu, Aug 04 2011 9:33PM
Subject: Re: Your favorite samples of websites that are "ool" looking, yet accessible
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Hi Birkir,
I love the Guardian (www.guardian.co.uk) for its keyboard accessibility which is very advanced (check out their skip links and focus treatment on images).
Cheers,
Jens
From: steven
Date: Fri, Aug 05 2011 2:48AM
Subject: Re: Your favorite samples of websites that are "ool" looking, yet accessible
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Maybe it's just me, but websites that are cool and accessible like K Leisure
seldom have influential (and by 'influential' I mean techniques and
standards that can be backed up by analytical reports to quantify charging
clients for the work) on-page SEO work done, like this one. Notice how the
page titles use simple conventions like 'Home' and 'News', rather than the
newer (and by 'newer' I simply mean widely adopted) geo/keyword conventions
that gives clients quick and easy SEO results.
Are there websites that look cool, are accessible, and also provide
influential on-page SEO?
Regards,
Steven
From: Jeevan Reddy
Date: Fri, Aug 05 2011 5:21AM
Subject: Re: Your favorite samples of websites that are "ool" looking, yet accessible
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Hi Birkir,
See Yahoo india site. they made rich interfaces accessible with ARIA.
On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Birkir R. Gunnarsson <
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> 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
>
From: YOUNGV5
Date: Fri, Aug 05 2011 10:57AM
Subject: Re: Your favorite samples of websites that are "ool" looking, yet accessible
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There are a lot of good examples out there, but a centralized location
seems to be missing... http://www.nomensa.com/ is a good example of some
accessibility eye candy.
Vincent Young
User Experience, Web Accessibility Specialist
Nationwide Corporate Marketing
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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
From: Rick Hill
Date: Fri, Aug 05 2011 12:36PM
Subject: Re: Your favorite samples of websites that are "ool"looking, yet accessible
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Although the home page of http://www.nomensa.com/ has a few HTML and WCAG
issues ...
Rick Hill, Web CMS Administrator
University Communications, UC Davis
From: YOUNGV5
Date: Fri, Aug 05 2011 12:48PM
Subject: Re: Your favorite samples of websites that are "ool"looking, yet accessible
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Yep; always room for improvement, but a decent display of web
accessibility.
Vincent Young
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Nationwide Corporate Marketing
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Although the home page of http://www.nomensa.com/ has a few HTML and WCAG
issues ...
Rick Hill, Web CMS Administrator
University Communications, UC Davis
From: Paul.Adam
Date: Fri, Aug 12 2011 12:42PM
Subject: Re: Your favorite samples of websites that are "cool" looking, yet accessible
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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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