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WthRemix Winners Announced

Posted by michael on from the slashdot.org-still-needs-help dept.

joeclark1159 writes "The contest to redesign the World Wide Web Consortium's homepage to look like something vaguely superior to 1982-era lpt output has announced its winners, judged on criteria including standards compliance, accessibility, graceful degradation, and aesthetics. The grand-prize winner, Radu Darvas, is arguably head and shoulders above the competition."

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  1. An accessible page with fixed font sizes? by rmonday · · Score: 1, Redundant
    I don't see what's so accessible about a design that uses fixed text sizes. Seems to be an attempt to do page layout, rather than page markup.

    To be properly accessible, it should (amongst other things...) be possible to easily change the displayed font size to suit your preference.

    With the default MSIE settings it can't be done when the stylesheet specifies fixed pixel font sizes. I realise that most of the size specifications in css are broken in some way in some browser, but just assuming that everybody uses the exact same screen DPI and has the exact same eyesight isn't the answer.

    From that point of view, the winning design is a big step backwards from the existing site (and no less cluttered and confusing).

  2. Missing half the beauty with CSS turned on by starvingartist12 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    You're missing half the beauty of the design without grabbing the Toggle CSS Stylesheet favelet/bookmarklet and trying it out on the winning site.

    Because of the use of proper HTML structure (Hx, Acronym tags) the site is still is very accessible and easy to read.

    A minor quibble I have is the rampant usage of spans with a class named "none" to hide navigation divider pipes ("|") when CSS is on. Something like an unordered list might be better structurally... but that's more of a personal thing.

  3. Missing half the beauty with CSS turned on by starvingartist12 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    You're missing half the beauty of the design without grabbing the Toggle CSS Stylesheet favelet/bookmarklet and trying it out on the winning site.

    Because of the use of proper HTML structure (Hx, Acronym tags) the site is still is very accessible and easy to read.

    A minor quibble is the rampant usage of spans with a class named "none" to hide navigation divider pipes ("|") when CSS is on. Something like an unordered list might be better structurally... but that's more of a personal thing.

  4. Missing half the beauty with CSS turned on by starvingartist12 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    You're missing half the beauty of the design without grabbing the Toggle CSS Stylesheet favelet/bookmarklet and trying it out on the winning site.

    Because of the use of proper HTML structure (Hx, Acronym tags) the site is still is very accessible and easy to read.

    A minor quibble is the rampant usage of spans with a class named "none" to hide navigation divider pipes ("|") when CSS is on. Something like an unordered list might be better structurally... but that's more of a personal thing.