Accessibility
Accessibility is vital to attract and retain your audience.
The following are key design criteria we use to create accessible sites:
-
Sites should load quickly. Sites that do not load quickly are not
accessible to anyone!
-
Content should be loaded first. This occupies the user with something to read while
the rest of the page loads, and is better optimized for search engines.
-
Sites should be scalable. Care must be taken to respect your visitors' preferred font
sizes, as set in their browser. Unfortunately, some sites lock their fonts to sizes that
are practically unreadable.
-
Graphics should include descriptions. Not everyone can see the graphics, and
some people turn them off.
-
Graphics should never be used for site navigation. If graphics must be used for
site navigation, it should only be as an alternative to text-based navigation.
Remember, not everyone can see the graphics.
-
Color schemes should be clear, and should respect the 8.5 percent
of our population who have some sort of color-blindness.
-
Sites should function in all of the major browsers, notably,
Internet Explorer 6+, Firefox 3+, Chrome 5+, Safari 4+, and Opera 10+.
If you have any questions about accessibility, please contact us!