FullCodePress: Inside the Judging
Published by: FullCodePress
Date: May 14, 2009
Read the entire article at: http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/05/13/fullcodepress-inside-the-judging/
"Here at FullCodePress, the 24 hours are over—each of the sites are finished, the clients and teams are taking a well-earned rest. Now, it’s time for the judges to cast their careful eyes over each site. Let’s take a sneak peek inside the judging.
...Markup: Judged by yours truly. I’ll be checking to ensure that the markup on the site is semantically appropriate, sensibly named, structured cleanly, and of course valid. Being from a content management background, I’m also interested in whether each site’s CMS helps users keep the resulting markup clean and tidy, and encourages good habits among the users. I’ve seen many a good site ruined in the past by the fact that a CMS does a poor job of cleaning up someone’s code boo-boos, or worse yet, introduces validation errors of their own.
...Of course, Lee will be running some tests of her own. “While it’s been running I’ve had a look through the sites and I’ve been running some basic scripts against the form fields, just to see if they bring up anything interesting. For example, some forms can leave a site open to an SQL injection attack.”
Accessibility: Gian Wild, a renowned accessibility ninja, will be assessing each site on its access strengths. Since the Aussie team is working with a disability advocacy group, this is especially important for this team–but with Rainbow Youth’s requirement for an open and inclusive site, we can be sure she’ll be holding the Code Blacks up to the same exacting standards!
“I tested against WCAG1 and also used a variety of well-known techniques that people with a disability are likely to use, such as turning images off, increasing text size, and turning stylesheets off.” says Gian. “In some areas I was very impressed and in others… I was quite concerned. As an example, there are some situations where increasing sizes or turning images off can cause important elements like the navigation to disappear, which is obviously not very good.” "
FullCodePress: And The Winner Is …
Published by FullCodePress
by Matthew Magain
The final sites are available for viewing online, and handover will occur after both teams have caught up on sleep! "
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