Here we link to some useful websites relating to web design, web accessibility and colour. If you have a related website that isn’t listed here and would like us to include it, just drop us a line and we’d be happy to have a look at it.
Web design
- A List Apart: an online magazine offering articles on web design and development with a strong focus on web standards and best practices
- Digital Web Magazine: online magazine for professional web designers, web developers and information architects
- zeldman.com: Jeffery Zeldman’s personal website offering web design news and info
Web standards
- Web Standards Project: an organisation campaigning for web standards
- World Wide Web Consortium (W3C): an international consortium working to develop web standards
Web accessibility
- Making Compact Forms More Accessible:
A List Apart article by Mike Brittain, 19 December 2006 - Seven Accessibility Mistakes (Part 1) and Seven Accessibility Mistakes (Part 2): two-part Digital Web Magazine article by Christian Heilmann offering web accessibility advice
- Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI): part of the W3C that develops strategies, guidelines, and resources to help make the Web accessible to people with disabilities
- WebAIM: Web Accessibility in Mind lots of useful information about web accessibility
Colour contrast
- Juicy Studio Colour Contrast Analyser: online tool for testing colour contrast
- Web Accessibility Tools Consortium (WAT-C) Colour Contrast Analyser: downloadable tool that can be used to test the contrast between two colours
Web colour
- Colors on the Web: a website dedicated to giving information about using colours in web design. Packed full of useful info and some great tools. I could spend hours spinning the Color Wheel.
- Eric Meyer’s Color Blender: an incredibly useful tool that allows you to specify two colours and view up to ten shades between the two.
