Accessibility in Design

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This website is part of an Assessment for the university of Brighton

Hand in date - by 8.15 am on Thursday 22/1/09

You will produce a website providing a tutorial in and (perhaps) demonstrating a significant technology of personal interest which is not covered by this module to any great extent.

The tutorial should be about a subject which would be of interest to and relevant to the job of a webmaster, e.g. various XML technologies (such as SMIL, XHTML, WML, BizTalk, RDF, XLINK, XSL etc), languages (such as Java, PHP, Cold Fusion, Perl, Python, TCL etc), technologies (such as JSP, Java Servlets, ASP, ActiveX, Flash, SVG, PNG etc) or design issues (e.g. international issues, access for those with disabilities, web engineering, information engineering etc).

1. You will be expected to submit your website to CoFIND, and to look at and evaluate the work of at least two other students. Minimally this means supplying ratings, but comments are also valuable. You have until the end of Tuesday 23rd January to perform this evaluation task (midnight).

2. As part of your website, you should produce a reflective commentary on the process, how you approached it, what went well, what didn't and what you have learnt. This should include some evaluation of the product, its strengths and weaknesses. It should be approximately equivalent to two printed A4 pages, or around 500-700 words. Reflection is by its nature personal and you should focus on how the experience went for you.

A reminder for the unwise...

Any use of someone else's work should be properly ascribed using either Harvard-style citations or hyperlinks to the original sources (not just the sites they come from, but the pages themselves). Academic misconduct will be dealt with very severely. If you are unsure, you will find guidelines on studentcentral which will help. If you are still unsure, don't be afraid to ask. The best result of a plagiarism or collusion panel is failing a module, the worst is failing a course and a permanent stain on your record. They cause great anxiety and work for everyone involved.

Submitting Your Work

Unless you have a very good reason not to do so, you should host your website at the University of Brighton. If you host your site elsewhere and it is unavailable (or even if you have provided an incorrect or illegible URL), it will not be marked. If you host your site elsewhere it is strongly recommended that you also hand in a CD or floppy disk containing a backup of your site. You may of course do this anyway, especially if you have created a dynamic site with a backend application, where your genius is hidden from view.

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