Top Tips To Increase Websites Accessibility
When you deploy a new website or redesign an existing one there are many variables that will have a major influence over the website success. From the beginning, the purpose of website must be clearly established. Depending on the type of website, for example news portal, company presentation website or online store, a certain suitable architecture must be chosen from a ready made one or defined according to the website requirements and content.
The website accessibility is an important characteristic defining the interaction quality at the visitor level. All web pages must be rendered correctly by all modern web browsers and across commonly used operating systems.
From this reason, before publishing a website is recommended the usage of validation tools in order to define the degree of compatibility between the web pages code and major web browsers rendering capabilities. A good choice is the usage of standard (X)HTML and CSS. Suitable text colors, fonts, gradients and effects must be used according to the website layout structure and colors. In order to ensure an optimal visibility of web pages, various screen resolutions should be tested (liquid templates does not depend on screen resolution).
The navigation system must be clearly defined and as a consequence easy to understand by the website visitor. Practically, an optimal navigation system should underline the content presented inside the web pages: the user must be able to rapidly find relevant information with a minimum number of mouse clicks. For example, a content search system feature or a links cloud could improve the information accessibility. A high number of internal links will also enhance the user navigation experience.
Page loading time is another parameter that must be modeled such as its value to be under five seconds. The users could loose interest if a page loading time value is high and they will not return to visit your website. In order to obtain the best page loading speed, the number of images, Flash files, included JavaScript codes or other elements should be combined in a balanced manner: it is recommended to use 75% from a web page free space for text content and to optimize the JavaScript and HTML code or multimedia files size.
Also, visitors must be able to easily read the text content. From the search engines spiders point of view, the text content will determine the degree of website visibility in case of search engines results pages (a higher amount of text content will improve the website visibility).
The quality of a website will be defined by a sum of all elements regarded as content and the global website functionality. A constant number of returning visitors can be achieved by obtaining a stable equilibrium between website design and functionality, content structure and website accessibility.
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