Usability
Imagine for a moment you are blind or severely sight impaired. How useful would the web be to you? Or
that you have arthritis or a motor neuron desease such as Parkinsons and using a mouse is very difficult.
How useful would the web be to you?
Or lets say you are fully able... how often have you come across a site whose text is too small to read?
Or which has pale text on a pale background? Very often right?
These are all web site usability issues. Frankly, they boil down to common sense. Here are the basics:
- aim for maximum contrast between the text and the background
- make the text large enough to read for the over 40s
- make line lengths 8 to 10 words, any longer and people wont be able to track back and down to the
next line
- don't have things that twirl and jump around beside important static text
- make sure your main offer or raison d'etre is no more than one click away from the homepage - IF
THAT. It is not an easter egg hunt, don't
make people think
At DWS, we make it usable, we make it accessible, we make it compliant to the W3 standard and we make
it sell stuff.
Ideal Referral: the address of a web site with blue text on the red background
"web sites that work"
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