CNN
Address: www.cnn.com
Description: The website of the popular news organization provides up-to-date news, commentary, and entertainment in the form of videos, text, and graphics. Most news stories have “From the Blogs” links where discussion forums provide students with a chance to interact with the stories that are important to them, as well has read commentary by knowledgeable sources. Also, each story has an “Explainer” button where students can find more background information about a story, along with links to related information.
Authorship: CNN
Publishing Body: CNN
Point of View or Bias: None
Referral to Other Sources: Lots of links
Verifiability: links to experts
Currency: Updated continually
Accessibility: WAVE (http://wave.webaim.org/) reports 36 accessibility errors. There are many instances of hidden content, mislabeled headings, unordered lists, missing labels and inaccessible event handlers. Also, the site is heavy in flash and javascript content which is inaccessible to screenreaders.
- cc 2009 Jonan Donaldson
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