lecture six

accessibility, usability and search engines

No matter how good their visual style or interesting their content, sites may still be difficult to use if they take no account of the diversity of visitors to your site. This lesson tells you how you can ensure your site is accessible to the maximum number of potential users. This has three main aspects: ensuring your site works on multiple browsers (accessibility); ensuring it is easy to load, read and navigate (usability); and ensuring that it can be found by prospective visitors (dealing with search engines).

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No pre-reading is required for this lecture. It will help if you have to hand the feedback you received on your week 4 course work.

online materials

• Validation
• Text-only browsers
• Non-visual browsers
• General accessibility issues
• Usability
• The cache
• <meta> tags
• Search engines

Remember you can see a printer-friendly (text-only) version of this lecture if you want to print it off.

This is the last Web Design Core lecture. Use the self-test to check your understanding.

If you are going on to the Advanced Web Techniques option here is a link to lecture 7. Otherwise you might like to read the site conclusion.