Buena Vista Public Schools
- Date Accessed: August 8, 2003
- URL: http://www.buena-vista.k12.va.us/
- Content: Content is available on the homepage.
Web Standards
- HTML 4 or XHTML validation: DOCTYPE! was not included.
- Text-Browsing: Good text presence, structure would help ordering of material
- Proprietary Code: Microsoft Word
- Editor Used: Microsoft Word
- Number of lines of code:361
Bloat of code is from proprietary code added by Microsoft Word. XML and the amount of CSS is unnecessary. Code is bloated further by unintelligent addition of style tags by Word throughout the document.
Usability Concerns
I very much liked their site. The flanking of links on either side were easy to read, and the leading between links was ideal. The centralized location of content was good, too. The use of an ALT attribute for the graphic worked as expected for the text browser.
They further impressed me with a "last updated" tag at the bottom of the page, yet curiously (and this is not unique to Buena Vista) the authors left-out a copyright symbol, or the word 'copyright'. School divisions can copyright their content.
Accessibility Concerns
Despite the bloat, the site worked reasonably well for text. The structure using tables was the weakness; using an intelligent use of CSS-P and structural tags (headings, paragraphs, and lists), the text-version of the site would be ideal.
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