The "Ask Felgall" Website Construction Award
Recognising well constructed sites on the web
Script and Plugin Criteria
To work out what score you should get for this section just check whether these statements are true in respect to your site, if so then you should be awarded the corresponding points.
Maximum points for each criteria are indicated by the numbers shown in bold preceding each description.
- 02 The site is still usable with images turned off. (excluding pages where the content is the images)
- 02 The site is still usable with Javascript turned off. (or where the page uses Javascript to supply an interactive function - not navigation - a message is displayed indicating that the page requires Javascript to function)
- 01 Event handlers respond to both mouse and keyboard.
- 01 Popups still function with Javascript turned off (in this case a separate browser window may be substituted).
- 01 The site is still usable with style sheets turned off.
- 01 The site does not use image maps.
- 01 The site does not use Java.
- 02 The site is still usable with Java turned off.
- 01 Links to PDFs have an adjacent link so that your visitors can download the acrobat plugin.
- 01 Pages containing Flash have an adjacent link so that your visitors can download the flash plugin.
- 01 Pages containing Quicktime have an adjacent link so that your visitors can download the quicktime plugin.
- 01 Sites containing lots of PDFs, Flash, or Quicktime pages have an appropriate notice and link on the home page so that your visitors can download the required plugin.
- 03 Plugins other than acrobat, flash, and quicktime are only used on pages where the content of the page requires their use. An appropriate link to download the plugin is provided. Where the site contains many such pages, a link on the home page is also provided.
- 02 Files intended for download are supplied in a compressed format (eg. zip) in order to ensure that the link does not execute the file in the browser if an appropriate plugin is installed..
