OpenWeb Group Critique

OpenWeb is the work of Tristan Nitot a one-time Netscape employee and general accessibility/standards advocate. The site is a great accessibility resource that offers content based on your level of experience from beginner to expert (you colud use googles language tools to translate from french to english). Of the four Accessible sites I have reviewed it is certainly one of the best and most attractivly designed sites.

Purpose

A collaborative project to develop a site offering an expert view of the web and to promote concrete examples of web solutions that implement the standards of the W3C. A hard core group of developers and contributing authors support this ideal. The project has grown and matured since 2000 and now includes more than a dozen organising contibuting editors of different backgrounds.

Presentation

A fully featured site with a strong design theme and exceptional Accessibility functionality. The site supports extended functionality with a user profile driven content agregation method. It also allows for dynamic changing of presentation by the user (via switching CSS). This site displays the best overall Accessabile design combined with flexible and intuitive presentation.

Site Accessibility

Checking the site with the Bobby Validation tool, all tested pages of the web site correspond to the defaults of the WCAG 1.1 in the priorities 1 & 2.

All tested pages validate 1.1 after XHTML strict.

All tested pages have meaningful structured and semantic constructed markup.

Heading elements from h1 to h4 are present.

Overall this site makes good use of Accessibility indexes, CSS and well structured code to provide an Accessible web site.

This site offers the most sophisticated Accessibility design articles and has a high degree of Accessibility built in to the design. A brilliant web site in concept and execution, pity is it in French.