Pre-judging the Golden Spider Awards
Friday, 11 September 2009
We're taking part in the judging for the 2009 eircom Golden Spiders Awards. We're carrying out a pre-judging standards conformance analysis on each entry.
The purpose of this is to weed out any entries that fall so short of adhering to web standards that they can't really be considered as suitable winners for best practice awards such as these. Basically, we're looking for serious breaches of code validity, accessibility and browser compatibility. Entries would fail for things like missing Doctype declarations, major incompatibilities with popular browsers or the lack of any structural markup. From what we've looked at so far, no sites are getting everything perfect, so the trick for us is to weed out major bad practice without setting the bar too high. It's a delicate operation!