The McFarlane Prize, which recognises excellence in Australian Web Design, is now accepting nominations for this year’s award.
This year the judges will be slightly relaxing some of the early stage web standards and accessibility assessments in order to give websites that are more visually focused in their design a greater chance of being short listed.
But what became apparent last year was that this process was privileging web standards and accessibility over design and usability and that as time went on the issue was going to arise of some truly excellent sites being knocked out unfairly in that first round because of our very high standards there. So, this year we are relaxing on web standards and accessibility just a little in that first round, but at the same time introducing an aspect of assessing on visual design at this stage as well.
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