Accessible website design good practice for information sites:
- Find out a bit about the W3C
- Find out a bit about WAI
- What is WCAG?
- Find out a bit about the RNIB
- Join the RNIB Campaign For Good Website Design
- What is ‘See It Right’
- Learn a bit about Jakob Nielsen, usability expert
- Disability Discrimination Act and Websites
- What is PAS 78?
- UK Government Recommendations
- UK Disability Rights Commission
- Compliance with S.E.N.D.A.
- Is my website accessible?
- Is my website legal?
- Minimum requirement under UK Law?
- Can I be prosecuted under UK Law?
- Who enforces UK website accessibility laws?
- When must a site be accessible by?
- Has anyone been prosecuted under the UK DDA?
- Has anyone been prosecuted under the DDA elsewhere in the world?
- Website Accessibility issues for the Blind
- Website accessibility issues for the Deaf
- Website accessibility issues for the Physically Impaired
- Website accessibility issues for people with Learning Disabilities
- Best Monitor Screen Resolution to design for?
- What is Section 508?
- Who is Watchfire?
- What is BOBBY?
- Why Bobby Approved is not enough
- Keep It Simple Stupid (KISS)
- What is the 3-click rule of website design?
- Keep navigation & page layouts consistent
- Keep download times to a minimum
- Use a template for your website (even if it is static)
- Build to W3C / WAI standards
- Use UK Government Access Keys
- What’s bad about UK Government Access Keys?
- Let visitors turn on and off UK Government Access Keys
- Don’t think everyone has got the same software has you
- Don’t use Flash to build your entire website
- Do not use Frames to build your website
- Use HTML to build your website
- Use CSS to build your website
- Don’t add a text only site!
- Add a ’skip links’ link
- Achieve true separation of content from design
- Use a fluid website layout
- Don’t use tables for layout
- Use tables properly
- Provide a summary for tables
- Specify the language used
- Use ALT text for images!
- Use equivalent alternatives for flash or movies
- Don’t use images for text
- What’s the best font size to use?
- What are the best text and background colours to use on a web page?
- Ensure good contrast between foreground & background
- Don’t use colour to ‘describe’ anything
- Don’t give people epileptic fits when they visit your website!
- Don’t produce pop up windows!
- Make your links obvious
- Make sure all your links work as expected
- Explain abbreviations and acronyms
- Eliminate Horizontal Scrolling
- Don’t open email programmes unexpectedly
- Design for device-independence
- Don’t use “click here” as link text
- Test your website every 2 minutes!
- Test your website in IE, Opera & Safari
- Test your website in Firefox
- Test how your page prints out
- What is HTML/CSS validation?
- Where can you test the accessibility of your website?
- One subject to a short sentence, avoid jargon
- Documents shall be organized so they are readable when a style sheet is removed.
- Use client-side image maps
- Don’t rely on javascript for important links!
- Properly develop your email forms
- Don’t open links in new windows
- No meta re-directs
- Separate Adjacent Links
- Use <link>s in your document the LINK element
- Don’t design solely for mouse users
- Don’t break the back button!
- Don’t forget to add a doctype
- Use intelligent URLs
- Long, unusable URLs
- Use international date format (ISO)
- Provide a disclaimer / privacy policy
- Create an accessibility statement
- Use linked style sheets rather than embedded styles
- Use different document titles for every page.
- Let users specify different stylesheets on your site using a server side scripting language
- Only use CSS based dropdown navigation systems
- Use NOSCRIPT tags with JAVASCRIPT
- Know your website accessibility resources on the net
- Correct Use Of H1, H2, H3, H4, H5, H6
- SEO and Accessible Website Design
- Submit your website to Google, Yahoo & MSN
- Designing your website for visitors with Dyslexia
- Don’t think that knowing about the above tips makes you a usability or accessibility expert!
