Digitally Refreshing

“Sitescore is a free tool which rates how well designed, popular and accessible your website is.”

And it works very, very well. I was quite taken aback by the depth of their analysis. Typically this sort of information would have been reserved for paying guests. Make sure to try it out - I did…

This is the rating I received for Pixel Juice:

Nuffield Hospitals are offering visitors the option to select an enhanced text only version of their site. Just click on the prominent link above the Nuffield logo at the top of the page.

This allows people with visual disabilities the chance to read content with ease. Round of applause from me.

How’s the accessibility of your website? Use this great tool to see how well you’ve assembled your site:
http://webxact.watchfire.com

This is the headline found on the “Association for the Physically Disabled” website. It’s a pity that their website fails in almost every area of accessibility. No alternative to images, link colour is the same as font colour, impossible to use from a keyboard, the list is endless. If any website should be employing accessibility guidelines it’s the crowd who designed this site!
http://www.apdjhb.co.za/

When you have 5 minutes take a look at Vega School’s website. You can argue good design till you’re blue in the face but there’s only one way to write good code. Unfortunately Vega’s “Do as I say, not as I do” attitude won’t stand up here.

bgcolor, font, align and other deprecated tags are rife through out this newly designed site and I?m not even going to start with the accessibility issues. Who did they use to build this site? I hope this isn’t an indication of coding standard of their students!

Really, if this institution can’t even create basic, (and I really mean basic) compliant code then who are they to teach the web developers and designers of tomorrow?
http://www.vegaschool.com

1 in 12 people have some sort of color deficiency. When you’re designing for the web, this means that 1 in 12 people might not be able to see your site. That’s alot of people. This tool helps you simulate the appearance of our site’s colors for people with different color visions.
http://www.iamcal.com/toys/colors/