NC State University IT Accessibility Office is proud to announce the winners of the 2013 World Usability Day Website Challenge, which was held Oct. 15 through Nov. 13. NC State Web developers were challenged to:

• address general usability by correcting the most website accessibility errors

• add a “skip to main content” link on at least 80 percent of their Web pages

Campus Web developers have corrected a total of 416,196 accessibility errors for this challenge. Since the Accessibility Scan service began in March 2013, they have corrected a total of 1,188,908 accessibility errors.

The winning sites — those with the largest percentage of accessibility errors corrected in their respective category — are:

• Large Sites (1,000+ pages): WolfWare, 89.91 percent

• Medium Sites (100-999 pages): Student Media, 79.93 percent

• Small Sites (1 – 99 pages): Admissions, 99.37 percent

Other sites with notable improvements include:

• Mathematics, 75.14 percent

• Horticultural Science, 68.36 percent

• Textiles, 44.78 percent

• Libraries, 22.45 percent

As a result of this challenge, a total of 128 campus websites now include a “skip to main content” link on at least 80 percent of their Web pages. You can view a list of these sites plus other websites with at least 20 percent of their accessibility errors corrected at NC State 2013 World Usability Day Website Challenge. The University IT Accessibility Office determined the top websites and all ratings based solely on automated accessibility tests.