Anybody can design and put up a web site. It’s even claimed that there are more web pages than there are people in the world! Given the sheer number of sites out there, the ultimate goal should be to have an effective site.
Most people who outsource their web sites choose a web designer based on price and portfolio. But is a fancy design necessarily an effective one? For the DIYers, there are web design and editing tools available and it is relatively easy to create a site that contains some very impressive graphics. But do fancy graphics make a difference?
Web Usability: continue reading …
ITPro are currently hosting a Reuters’ article entitled “Websites must be accessible to disabled, firms told” that contains a somewhat inaccurate statement. Namely:
“It’s the silver bullet,” IMRG’s Chief Executive James Roper told Reuters. “Put this little button on your site and suddenly you are legal.”
The ‘it’ being referred to is apparently (and once again) the Textic Toolbar.
There’s No Such Thing As A Magic Bullet: continue reading …
According to OUTLAW.COM, companies in the UK must include certain regulatory information on their websites and in their email footers by 1 January 2007 or risk breaching the Companies Act.
Every company should list its company registration number, place of registration, and registered office address on its website as a result of an update to the legislation of 1985. The information, which must be in legible characters, should also appear on order forms and in emails. Such information is already required on “business letters” but the duty is being extended to websites, order forms and electronic documents.
Mandatory Company Information For Web Sites: continue reading …
Accessites.org boasts an impressive showcase of some of the most attractive and accessible sites around. Yet, if you check any of these sites out, you’ll find very few of them sport a “Triple-A” badge. Most only claim Double-A compliance. Why? If these sites are amongst the “best of the best”, why aren’t they Triple-A?
Because the reality is that true Triple-A compliance isn’t practical in the Real Worldtm.
Why Triple-A Sites Aren’t: continue reading …
