Good Accessible Design
These sites have been designed to work for people with disabilities:
- The BBC website
- The Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB) website
- The official JK Rowling website
- The Glenbow Museum
- Prisoner 4099
The BBC Website
One of the world’s largest websites, the BBC site has accessibility as a core design principal. Although some recent developments such as iPlayer are controversial, the BBC in general takes enormous care to ensure the site works well across a range of platforms and with most AT.
The RNIB Website
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the RNIB’s extensive Xpedio backed website is a model of accessibility and usability providing excellent support for screenreaders and most AT across all common browsers and platforms.
The Official JK Rowling Site
The JK Rowling site is much celebrated for it’s accessibility enabled Flash content which parallels the main site accurately. Further fallback content is available in the form of a text-only rendering which is always kept both faithful and current.
The Glenbow Museum
The Glenbow Museum site was developed using Macromedia Studio and maintained largely via Contribute. The site achieves WCAG AA conformance throughout and is frequently held up by Adobe as an example of how their tools can facilitate accessible content management, design and development.
Prisoner 4099
Prisoner 4099 is the winner of 2007 Jodi Awards for Web Accessibility. A number of young people with visual impairments worked with National Archives to produce the site, accessible archive material and a radio play based on the experiences of a Victorian young offender.