Hobbico, Inc.
Hobbico, Inc. is the largest U.S. distributor of radio-control and general hobby products. I became their one and only dedicated web developer among an established group of graphic artists and system programmers in April 2015.
Goal:
Update the existing hobbico.com website to be accessible and responsive.
Beginning State:
- Layout was devloped using fixed-width tables using HTML4.
- Color contrast was minimal making it difficult to read text.
- Navigation was not keyboard accessible.
- Form elements did not have labels and iframes did not have title attributes.
- Images and image maps were missing alt attributes.
Changes Made Along the Way
- Worked with marketing personel to restructured main site navigation to make it more categorical.
- Utilized PHP to make pages regularly updated easier to maintain.
- Some content required detailed planning and major changes to make accessible and responsive. This provided an opportunity to doe some side-by-side collaboration with a graphic artist to enhance the UX design and layout in parts of the site. Check out the Brands page for some fun UX interaction.
Feeback
I had the opportunity to share my work on this project during a Monthly 'Explore with Hadi' Accessibility Chat at the U of I. I was given high praise for my work, especially considering this was my very first accessibility overhaul.
Visit the live site at hobbico.com.