Customer Street and UFindUs Web Design

If you have a WordPress Blog and want to join in with Naked Day tomorrow then Aja Lorenzo Lapus has created a plugin to make life easier for you.

Just install the plugin and select if you want to join in for the recommended 48 hours or just 24 hours.

You can download the plugin on WordPress or the Plugin Home Page.

Tomorrow is ‘CSS Naked Day’ but unfortunatley the Customer Street blogs are to corporate to go naked. It’s a shame because it’s for a good cause.

Why go naked ?

It’s not for money or charity, it’s simply to promote and encourage web standards. All you need to do is remove all the styles from your website to join in. This is the third year of CSS Naked Day and every year there has been a huge responce.

It has been mentioned to me that this is considered ‘Geeky’ but as Alex (Customer Street CSS) pointed out

It’s to promote web standards, and seeing as MOST of today’s business uses the web in some form, I think you’ll find that having standards is a very good idea.

Alex will be joinging with http://www.syst3m32.co.uk and it’s already looking to be a fun day.

You can find more information on CSS Naked Day, code for your website and a list of some sites going naked for the day on http://naked.dustindiaz.com/

According to a recent report, the Online Retail Industry in the UK is failing to meet the legal requirements of the DDA. In a disabled access test, the average score of 57%.

Disabled users under 65 years of age use the web as often as the non-disabled and those under 45 even more so. Disabled are a huge and influential group and we need to be continually improving accessability on our websites to be able to provide or products and services to them.

Taken from Web Designer (Issue 141, pg 16)

Twenty of the top UK retailers were examined in the study, including Waterstones, Game, HMV and Currys (just to name a few). Each site was examined for twenty best-practice guidelines and then scored out of 100. The highest rated websites were HMV and H Samuels, both scoring in the high seventies, while Boots, ELC and Currys all scored mid thirties. Although the majority of websites in this test generally adhered to accessability guidelines, they were generally let down in the checkout process.