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March 2011
The Computer Science website
(www.cs.colorado.edu)
was recently named a CU Web Design Award Winner by the University of Colorado
Universal Design and Accessibility Committee.
The Computer Science website tied for 5th place in the competition,
in which 42 websites from the Boulder, Denver and Colorado Springs campuses
were judged.
Sites were judged on four criteria:
- Accessibility
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Can people with disabilities use the website?
- Usability
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How well can users achieve their goals and how satisfied are they with that
process?
- Universal Design
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Is the website designed to be usable by all people, to the greatest extent
possible, without the need for adaptation or specialized design.
- Web Standards
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Does the website follow web standards in using newer structural markup
languages such as HTML 4.0, XHTML 1.1 and HTML 5.0; CSS formatting;
object modules like the W3C DOM; and scripting languages like JavaScript
to create web pages which are structured, semantic and with content
separated from presentation?
Department webmaster Bruce Sanders
accepted the award at the Web Design Awards and Training Day, which
was held March 30, 2011 on the Boulder campus.
The Universal Design and Accessibility Committee educates the CU-Boulder campus
on the benefits of Universal Design in the area of electronic communications
and information technology.
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