Independent Web Advice

Accessibility and Usability 10 Point Checklist

1. Keep your web pages simple
   
   
2. Keep your layout, design, navigation and fonts consistent across your website
   
   
3. Use standard HTML
   
   
4. Minimise use of images
   
   
5. Use standard fonts
   
   
6. Text should contrast with background
   
   
7. Text should resize
   
   
8. ‘alt’ descriptions should be meaningful
   
   
9. Use text alternatives for all non-text based information
   
   
10. Use access keys
    
    

More Info: The UK Government Access Keys Standard

S - Skip navigation

1 - Home page

2 - What's new

3 - Site map

4 - Search

5 - Frequently Asked Questions

6 - Help

7 - Complaints procedure

8 - Terms and conditions

9 - Feedback form

0 - Access key details

 Usage:

<a xhref="http://www.independentwebadvice.co.uk" accesskey="1">Independent Web Advice Home Page</a>

 This encodes as Independent Web Advice Home Page
Try it now with your keyboard. Press the 'Alt' key and the '1' key together and you should activate the link to the home page.

8 Audiences with special needs

1. Visual impairment
2. Motor impairment
3. Cognitive disability
4. Flashing sensitivities
5. The inexperienced or technophobic
6. The socially excluded
7. Older users
8. Non-English users

9 Technological Difficulties

1. Range of browsers,
2. Different screen sizes,
3. Different colour depths
4. Other user defined preferences
5. Different media such as mobiles and PDA’s
6. Corporate systems protected by firewalls
7. For people without a mouse
8. Screen readers and screen magnifiers
9. ‘narrowband’ dial up connections

Eight billion spending power!

• over 8.5 million people registered with one form of disability or another;
• of these over 2 million have a visual impairment;
• eight million people suffer from some form of hearing loss;
• one million people have a form of learning difficulty;
• over seven million people have literacy problems.