Most recent blogs in the Website Accessibility category
Web design trends are a funny thing. Just when you think you’ve nailed the perfect design, some bright spark comes up with a new idea or a new technology and suddenly your world is flipped on its head.
There are much better ways to stop bots. And they deliver better conversion rates as well. This is what I call a no-brainer.
Yesterday was Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), which was created to raise awareness and get people thinking about digital accessibility.
Form design is critical to website conversion. We have some golden rules as web designers and it is a brave soul that challenges these rules.
When designing for mobile website and apps, the process is more complex. What appears to work on computer screen can vary on an Android, IOS or Windows device
Users don't browse Information Architecture. They take journeys through websites. Delivering users as quickly and enjoyably to their destination on your website is best facilitated by designing key User Journeys.
Is accessibility only relevant to the blind? Think again.
The growth of social networking sites over the past year has been significant, according to Nielson Australian users spent 1.6 Million hours on Facebook and Twitter in June 2009, this is a 100% increase from June last year! According to Hitwise Facebook’s market share has increased 101% and Twitter’s grew by 1516% in the past year! Myspace however with its poor usability and slow page load times has managed to lose more than half its market share.
Accessibility from a developers point of view part 1 - some elements that make up a triple A website
Having waited for nearly 10 years for the newly improved guideline to be finished, are they really any easier to use?
Unfortunately, accessibility is a topic few sites administrators take serious despite prior lawsuits awarding monetary damages and other unfavorable outcomes.
Despite the popularity of video content, it does present several challenges over traditional text based content. Fortunately, these can be easily overcome by providing a transcript of the video. Here are four challenges a transcript can help address:
There’s a good chance your website contains at least one outbound link. If so, you have probably debated whether or not this link should open in a new browser window. There are several logical reasons why this may seem like a good option
Accessibility addresses the ways people with disabilities interact with your website, whether visually, physically, or mentally impaired, all users should be able to navigate, understand and interact with your site. Here are some compelling reasons why your website should be meet accessibility standards.
Many of us take for granted the ability to navigate websites online, but have you ever wondered how a vision impaired person experiences the internet?