Here are the main things to think about when designing a website: Maintain a design and layout consistency throughout the site, Avoid clutter, Include written transcript for any audio and visual media, Avoid multiple level menus. Do not have more than two levels, Include a sitemap when your site has embed pages, Avoid making the [...]
Lists can be tricky, but as long as you keep a consistent structure and the correct sequence, lists are a piece of cake. Here are the basics to remember: Make your menus into unordered lists, Place the list inside a div, Have an H2 header with menu title (hide it if not need to be [...]
It is more and more apparent that accessibility can be beautiful. I came across Accessibility in Focus, a website for an accessible web award. There was 4 finalist, one of them was the Salford City Council. A fairly large website. Its navigation is straightforward even if at first glance the site looks overwhelming. This site [...]
The W3C has extensive information on how to properly evaluation a sites accessibility. Here are the underlining steps to ensure that your evaluation is full-proof: For a preliminary review, select a page that is representative of the whole site or that most people will see. Try to choose a page that has tabular data, images [...]
So I recently re-did one of my old websites. My client wanted to had some images so I took the opportunity to give her an accessible site. I had done this site a few years ago. I wasn’t aware back then of web standards and web accessibility. I must confess of using tables for layout. [...]
Ok so Canada does not have the national equivalent to the United States section 508. But if you want to know what they recommend you can read their Common Look and Feel standards for the Internet documentation. Obviously the information is for government and public sector websites, but it could be useful to get another [...]
