5 Simple Guidelines To Improve Your Website's Accessibility. With each and every passing day, the World Wide Web (WWW) is becoming more and more advanced. It has also established itself as one of the most vital and powerful resource of information, and a source abound with exciting possibilities. Sites have become the easiest and convenient forms of information exchange, surpassing most of the traditional media channels like the radio and television. It is quite unfortunate that the adaptability and the power of WWW is sometimes not utilised properly or fully to become usable for users with special needs.
In fact, the first ever global web accessibility survey, which was conducted by Nomensa on behalf of the United Nations in 2006 concluded that from the 100 leading web site home pages from 20 countries, 97% did not even achieve the Single-A accessibility level – the basic accessibility rating of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). 1. Colour How persons with different forms of colour blindness perceive the colours of the rainbow. Design principles to choose the right ideas – Henk Wijnholds. Monday October 26, 2009 Often people ask me how we know which ideas to choose from all the hundreds of ideas we’ve generated during brainstorm sessions. Apart from our gut feelings and experience there’s a method that could help us decide, define design principles.
In the past we used to call these principles ‘design criteria’ until I came across this great article about ‘Ubiquitous Computing Workshop: Mobile User Experience Design Principles‘ by Rachel Hinman back in 2007. What are design principles Design principles describe the experience core values of a product or a service. They should be written in a short and memorable way. Google’s design principles that contribute to a Googley user experience Design principles to help choose ideas, not to generate them It’s good to have design principles to help you choose ideas, but I don’t think it’s smart to stick to these principles too much while generating ideas in the first place.
Design principles What design principles should be Sources. Ten usability guidelines for designing the search interface. The search interface is the means by which users can search through the content of your web site. This post discusses what, I consider to be the ten most important guidelines that can make your web site’s search interface more usable. With 16.2 billion monthly searches using Search Engines in the U.S. alone (as at April 2011), many users have modeled their image of how a search interface should look like based on the major Search Engines’ search interface.
Any deviation from their expectations will make your web site’s search interface less usable. Following these simple guidelines will help you ensure that your search interface is usable. It must only consist of a text box and a button next to it: This convention has long been established by top search engines and users have become accustomed to it. Its search mechanism should not search outside your web site: Users use Search Engines for that.
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