I snaked this from Michael’s post:
A company called Silktide rates websites based on ease of use, navigation, downloading, etc. They are a web dev firm based out of the UK.
Here’s how I did:
Overall, it looks like my site did well until I read the expanded report which says: “This website appears to be in violation of the British Disability Discrimination Act”
What the hell?
It goes on to explain: “All pages were found in violation of the current W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. This website is probably unlawful in Britain from the 1st October 2004. The British Disability Discrimination Act makes it unlawful to discriminate against a disabled person by refusing to provide any service provided to members of the public – including websites.”
My offense: not using the “alt” tag on images.
You MUST be joking …
I guess I’ll be adding some alt tags to see if that 7.6 ups into a bigger number.
Nitallica
Addendum: OK, I’ll be the first to admit that maybe I was wrong … this thing *DID* help me find a couple of ‘bugs’ in my code that the Tidy HTML Validator let slide.
Who knew? ;P
I’m now up to 8.2 … is that good? heh
Mara
Tidy let you slide? Wow…see? I always knew Tidy liked you best!!! It never let’s *me* get away with anything ;p
Doc
See, a lot of designers/developers don’t quite consider the visually-impaired users out there. I, for example, have incredible difficulty with sites that have dark backgrounds. Worse is such sites that also have dark text to go with it. I knew about the “British Disability Discrimination Act” because a guy I know was attempting to make his site more suitable to my needs. I asked why and he mentioned the BDDA requiring it. God knows I’d love something like that here in the states. Not just because of myself but also because of all the blind folks I know who simply can’t access a lot of sites.
*Hugs* And bless you for adding the alt tags!
Nitallica
“Tidy let you slide? Wow…see? I always knew Tidy liked you best!!! It never let’s *me* get away with anything ;p”
Bwahahahaaaaa! Mara, you crack me up! ;)
Doc: They’re all blank. *g* Seriously, I prefer using title tags, but understand completely why alt tags should be used.
It’s funny, that site also caught a couple of id’s I had set in duplicate on one page, and found a bug in one of my forms.
What’s weird is that I’ve checked my code’s validaty with the W3C checkers before, and never found those.
*shrugs*
:P
kyra
LOL Wow! Interesting site, thanks for the heads up on it!
It says i have A page “in violation of the British Disability Discrimination Act†hmm… how the heck and I supposed to find A page… oh well.
I did see two errors that tidy also let me get away with.. strange! USually tidy shows errors I dont have :)
so.. guess I will be working on mine later!
Drawing Business
Vote for this site on silktide
After reading about the silktide sitescore tool on Nitallica’s blog, I put this site to the test. It fares pretty well, getting the maximum score for accessibility and design, and scoring a respectable 8.5 out of 10 overall.
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