Accessible Web Design
If you're going to the effort to design a web site, you may as well make it accessible.
Web site accessibility is often overlooked, but it can make a big difference to your customers. Not just disabled customers, either. Good accessibility tends to mean improved usability for all customers. And by designing your site for accessibility, you'll also be helping the search engines to spider your site fully and index it properly.
The articles in this section will help you understand the issues surrounding web site usability, and the methods you can use to make sure your site is accessible.
Articles
- Sitemaps 101 — Back to SEO school.
- Accessibility... The Basics — An accessible website is one that allows as many people as possible to access the infomation contained within it.
- Accessibility Helps Search — The secret benefit of accessibility part 2: a higher search engine ranking.
- Accessibility Helps Usability — The secret benefit of accessibility part 1: increased usability.