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2005-07-08, Awarded "Best Award Graphic" by AFA
We are proud to announce that the HITSASeal was selected as the "Best Award Graphic" by AFA, for the month of July of 2005. To all EUTODA' staff our sincere thanks for this honour! More info about this award is available at our "Honors Granted" section.
2005-06-22, Listed #2 among 31,000 web sites at Silktide SiteScore
With a rating of 9.5 (in 10 possible), the CPSnet Web Awards attained the second position at SiteScore's TOP 750, the best 750 from about 31,000 web sites tested until this date. Silktide SiteScore is a free tool which rates how well designed, popular and accessible a website is. The entire testing process is handled by advanced computer software. SiteScore also gathers user feedback on all the websites rated, to help judge how appealing a design is. SiteScore rates all websites on a scale of 1-10 (10 being the highest). Scores are broken down into 5 categories: Marketing, Design, Accessibility, Experience and User Feedback.
2005-06-07, listed at "Design Snack"
Design Snack is a database of websites rated based on the quality of their design and presentation. Its unique rating scale uses "cookies" and a site can get anywhere from 0-3 cookies, 3 being the highest. The CPSnet Web Awards were rated with "One Cookie" and listed under the "Award Sites" section of the portal.
2005-05-15, rated 6 by EUTODA
We are proud to announce that our program is now one of the few Web awards programs to achieve the prestigious level 6 at EUTODA, the Academy of Fine Awards. To all EUTODA' staff our sincere thanks for this honour!
2005-02-02, recognized as a 5+ Elite Award by Award Sites!
As it states at Award Sites!, "In recognition of owner, Carlos Simões, for his efforts going well beyond his award program in 'bettering the net through excellence!'". Needless to say that we at the CPSnet Web Awards are honoured by this outstanding distinction. Thank You AS! and thank you all the awardmasters and applicants that helped building this program!
2005-01-16, selected the Site Of The Year 2004!
It is that time of the year again, when we at the CPSnet Web Awards select the best site of the previous year. And this time, our panel of invited judges and our permanent review team have selected Tim's Spider Corner as the Best Site Of The Year 2004! Congratulations Tim Beylemans, for your outstanding website! Tim's Spider Corner is an educational site for all spider fans that addresses the conservation of nature. You will find bird eating spider information, as well as an assortment of pictures, handling tips, resource links, a spider knowledge quiz, and the complete anatomy of a bird eating spider.
2005-01-09, awarded the "Humanity Award 2005" by the The Rose Awards:
"We are very proud for being granted this distinction that it is given out to... Webmasters/webmistresses who give back of themselves to the worldwide Net community, offering their talents, their skills, their web sites, as resource points for other people who are interested in bettering themselves and their own sites ... These special people are a great asset to the World Community because they offer their advice and expertise to all who seek it, and everyday, they are making the Internet a better place to be!...". More info about this award is available at our "Honors Granted" section.
2004-10-20, listed at W3 Compliant Sites
Carlos Simoes is now a "W3 Compliant Sites Member". W3 Compliant Sites is a collection of web sites that were created by designers that conform with the W3C standards. This forum provides the opportunity for them to display their work and ideas in a community that shares common interests.
2004-10-13, listed at net-guide.co.uk
The CPSnet Web Awards are now listed at net-guide.co.uk with an accessibility rating of "excellent". This directory aims to promote accessible sites and gives an accessibility rating for the websites returned for any query entered. Similarly, the directory entries also carry an accessibility rating.
2004-06-07, rated 5 by WebsAwards
A special panel of external judges, convened to assess the programs owned by WebsAwards' Staff members, has rated the CPSnet Web Awards as a WebsAwards level 5 program.
2004-05-04, rated 3 by Awardia
The Awardia Index has rated the CPSnet Web Awards as a level 3 (in 4 possible, where the fourth level is designated "Corona").
2004-04-01, rated 4 by EAI:
The Euro Award Index reinstated this award program at "Level 4" (in 5 possible).
2004-03-23, joined WSG:
We have joined the Web Standards Group (WSG). The Web Standards Group is for web developers/designers who are interested in web standards, CSS and (X)HTML and related topics.
2004-03-15, web site redesigned:
The CPSnet Web Awards have now a brand new website, fully compliant XHTML 1.0 Strict, "made with CSS" and WCAG-WAI Level AAA. Thank you to Webmates, of which we are proud members, for all the help and for the inspiration!
2004-01-15, announced the Best Site of Year 2003:
Announced back in 15/January 2004: "Explore Mars Now". In this outstanding website, visitors can walk through a Mars habitat simulation learning about science and technology as they explore. There are over 100 photo-realistic 3-D images of a near term Mars Habitat concept that are "brought to life" in Macromedia Flash.
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Developing a "Text-Version" script

Please note that this page makes extensive use of JavaScript as it shows the application of several functions developed for javascript-enabled browsers. If your browser does not support JavaScript, some or most of the features on this page will be unavailable.

What a "Text transcoder", like that at UsableNet (LIFT Text Transcoder) does is linearize the page, i.e. remove any tables, disable any CSS style and/or stylesheet and toogle images OFF. So... if we have a way of having those scripts running in a painless way, we can have our own "text transcoder". Remember that this can help you through your AAA compliance... if you can not make a given page accessible, provide an alternative accessible version.

We have been developing such a script, still being coded in javascript (so not entirely accessible). This script consists of four main functions, described below, and it is based on the excellent NILS Accessibility Toolbar for Internet Explorer.

Function removeImages()

Unloads any image currently loaded. Does not apply to images used as background, if used my means of a CSS declaration like background-image. Works with: IE6, Firefox, Netscape7 (Win98SE).

if(document.images.length > 0){ (function(){ function to(c) { var a,k; a=new Array; for(k=0;k < c.length;++k) a[k]=c[k]; return a;} var im,img,xt; im=to(document.images); for(var i=0;iim.length;++i){ img=im[i]; e=document.createElement('span'); void(e.style.background='#f5deb3'); void(e.style.color='navy'); if(img.attributes.alt.specified!=true) {xt=document.createTextNode('NoAlt!')} else {xt=document.createTextNode(img.alt+' ')}e.appendChild(xt); img.parentNode.replaceChild(e,img)}})();} else {history.go()} }

Function linearize()

Removes any table (linearizes the content of any table). Works with: IE6, Firefox, Opera7.23 (Win98SE)

var H=[],Y={TABLE:1,TR:1,TD:1,TH:1,CAPTION:1,DIV:1},d=[],p; function R(N){ var a,x,i,t; if(t=N.tagName){ t=t.toUpperCase(); for (i=0;a=H[i];++i) if(N.getAttribute(a))N.removeAttribute(a); for(i=0;x=N.childNodes[i];++i)R(x); if (Y[t])d.push(N); } } R(document.documentElement); for (i=0;N=d[i];++i) { p=N.parentNode; while(N.firstChild)p.insertBefore(N.firstChild,N); p.removeChild(N); } }

Function disableInlineStyles()

Disables any inline CSS (used with <tag style="..."). Works with: IE6, Firefox, Netscape7, Opera7.23 (Win98SE)

var H=["style"],Y={},d=[],p; function R(N){ var a,x,i,t; if(t=N.tagName){t=t.toUpperCase(); for(i=0;a=H[i];++i)if(N.getAttribute(a))N.removeAttribute(a); for(i=0;x=N.childNodes[i];++i)R(x);if(Y[t])d.push(N);}}R(document.documentElement); for(i=0;N=d[i];++i){ p=N.parentNode; while(N.firstChild)p.insertBefore(N.firstChild,N); p.removeChild(N);}}

Function disableStyle()

Disables the externally linked stylesheet. Works with: IE6, Firefox, Netscape7, Opera7.23 (Win98SE)

function disableStyle() { if (!document.getElementsByTagName) return; var anchors = document.getElementsByTagName("link"); for (var i=0; i < anchors.length; i++) {var anchor = anchors[i]; if (anchor.getAttribute("rel") == "stylesheet") anchor.disabled = "true";}}

The steps to call this text transcoder

1. Add to the <head>:

<script type="text/JavaScript"> src="http://www.yoursite.com/textversion.js" </script>

2. Create a link in the page you want to "textualize":

<a href="#top" onclick="removeImages(); linearize(); disableStyle();disableInlineStyles(); return false;" title="Text Version">Text Version</a>

When you click this link, the all page is converted to a text-only page... note, do not use the removeImages() if your pages do not have images (excluding background ones) in it. To reload all the styles applied, all you have to do is hit "Refresh" in your browser.

You can call all these functions by selecting the link "Text-Version" in this page's header. This will execute all the functions in the order they are displayed above.

Note that you may use some of the functions only. The full script call is done this way:

<a href="#top" onclick="removeImages(); linearize(); disableStyle();disableInlineStyles(); return false;" title="Text Version">Text Version</a>

In order to use only one or some of the functions, you may use, for instance:

<a href="#top" onclick="disableStyle();disableInlineStyles(); return false;" title="Text Version">Text Version</a>

Next developments for this script

Contributions, suggestions and bug reports are welcome! Please send it to webawards@cpsimoes.net

  • Convert the javascript function to accept the URL as a parameter, like: textversion(http://wwww.xpto.com)
  • Create a server-side script (php, perl) so that we do not have to rely on javascript.

In the meantime, if you find it useful, you have our permission to use the script as it is now. You can download the textversion.js file for free and use it as long as the notice in the script remains unchanged.

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UsableNet(tm) and LIFT Text Transcoder are registered trademarks of UsableNet, a company specialized in developing systems and services for testing websites against accessibility and usability standards.