I was actually a judge for the AIMIA awards and it was interesting going through the judging criteria. Accessibility and Usability were judged together, I think for a total of 15 or 20 points.
The first thing I looked at was the code on all the sites - out of the 5 sites I was judging, 4 of them were in Flash and the 5th one had a tables based layout. I ended up marking all of them quite low but it was a difficult measure when accessibility and usability were tied in together. Yes, they were completely inaccessible but they were mostly usable so I think it was not a useful measure. I did write a lot of comments about it though so hopefully these comments will make it back to the site owners. It's just such a shame that in 2006 (when the judging was done) the majority of companies are still so unaware of accessibility standards and why they are important. On 1/23/07, Barney Carroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hey, I've just looked at a dozen of these... And I know this is a web standards list, but does it strike anyone that, more so than being full of invalid code, these sites are just ugly, cumbersome and uninspired? Forgetting coding standards and going on user experience, I wouldn't rank any of these in the top 50 websites I've seen this month alone. Regards, Barney ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
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