Nice charity sites 1111 Responses

Last post: 2 years, 7 months ago | Thread started: Jun 19, 09, 8:13 p.m.

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• jamble

  Anyone got any links to nicely designed and highly accessible charity websites? I've had a look on the filter and there's not much that's very inspiring and the majority of sites that adhere to the top accessibility standards look shit.

  I'm sure there are sites out there that meet the standards and actually look good as well but I can't find much!

  Jun 19, 09, 8:13 p.m. – Permalink

• 23kon

  AAA Accessibility shouldnt restrict your design whatsoever in terms of what can and cant be done as theres workarounds for everything which gives normal users a great experience and look and people needing an accessible website will get exactly that.

  It's only your colour palette that will be restricted or not exactly as you'd ideally like it because you'll need to make sure that theres enough contrast between colours of text n backgrounds etc.

  Its rediculous some of the sites or brochures that some companies are knocking out that are meant to adhere to full accessibility and are nowhere near it or that its not even been considered.

  

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  Dog-earJun 20, 09, 9:03 a.m. – Permalink

• lukus_W

  Using best-practice (in terms of site development / design), goes a long way to achieving accessibility aims. I think that people who need high visibility are more dependant on sites which have corrected marked up code. If your site can be navigated without a stylesheet, and you use headings sensibly, this is going to make a hell of a difference - because the user will be able to apply their own high-vis stylesheets to your markup.

  I know that people who use screenreaders are very dependent on correct use of headers - because this allows them to tab through content quickly to find what they're interested in.

  You can always allow the user to toggle text-size and provide your own toggle for a high-visiblity stylesheet if you're keen to provide an aethetically pleasing version of your site for all users.

  Personally, I really like to be able to find a community of users (who need accessible sites) who are willing to demo / test sites and give feedback based on their experiences. There must be communities out their who do this, but I'm yet to find any; though, chances are, I haven't been looking hard enough.

  • *out _there_– lukus_W1/2

    http://dev.opera.com…– lukus_W2/2

  

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  Dog-earJun 20, 09, 9:15 a.m. – Permalink

• lukus_W

  I'm not sure why accessibility would be more relevant to charity sites, either. Surely that's a bit of a tokenistic way of approaching the problem?

  • sorry, wasn't trying to have a go here -> but I doubt disabled people spend all day viewing charity websites– lukus_W

  

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  Dog-earJun 20, 09, 9:18 a.m. – Permalink

• jamble

  I'm quite open to other (or indeed any) suggestions of decent sites adhering to top standards.

  I've got a pretty good idea of how to build it, I just wanted to see some examples of how charities in particular approach the whole look and feel and a big part of it is to drive donations through the site as I'm redesigning a site soon for a deaf and blind society so the need for uber accessibility is there but it also needs to have a clear function in terms of driving donations.

  Just wanted to know if anyone had any nice links as pretty much all the charity sites I've seen so far look like fucking awful.

  

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  Dog-earJun 20, 09, 11:29 a.m. – Permalink

• lukus_W

  how about http://www.shelter.org.uk/

  • not sure how good it is in terms of accessibility though– lukus_W

  

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  Dog-earJun 20, 09, 11:38 a.m. – Permalink

• NEWSFLASH

  not sure if this is what you want, but its..rice..get it ??!
  http://www.freerice.com/

  • +1– akrokdesign

  

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  Dog-earJun 20, 09, 12:02 p.m. – Permalink

• akrokdesign

  http://www.makeitrightnola.org/

  

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  Dog-earJun 20, 09, 1:59 p.m. – Permalink

• akrokdesign

  http://www.nature.org/
  http://www.defenders.org/ - good cause, bad site. :-)

  

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  Dog-earJun 20, 09, 2:04 p.m. – Permalink

• akrokdesign

  http://www.wild.org/

  

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  Dog-earJun 20, 09, 2:05 p.m. – Permalink

• visionary

  http://www.gatesfoundation.org

  

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  Dog-earJun 20, 09, 2:31 p.m. – Permalink

• bkpatterson

  http://www.rednoseday.com/

  

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  Dog-earJun 21, 09, 1:59 a.m. – Permalink