Posts tagged "web content"
Your website design could be triggering migraine attacks.
Is this a trivial issue? Should you care?
There's heaps of information about designing accessible web sites for people with disabilities, because for government agencies in many countries, this is mandatory.
WCAG 2.0 sets guidelines that prevent web sites from starting an epilectic seizure.
But I haven't seen anything in WCAG 2.0 about migraine sufferers, so I'm speaking up on their behalf.
A quick guide to making your documents accessible to blind or low-vision people follows.
Remember the acronym: FILTH
For accessible content, you need to scrub away five sorts of rubbish.
Business writing has changed into something unrecognisable: content. The ironic book title Write me a web page, Elsie! reflects a 20th century viewpoint and a world that has gone forever.
The manager who says, Write me a web page, Elsie! has no concept of the nature of the internet. As content strategy, Write me a web page is disastrous. It generates ROT, it undermines information architecture, it ignores accessibility, it stomps on customer service.
Use keywords in headlines (often called headings). That's a basic rule of writing for the Web—and all other business writing.
Here's why.
E-government web content problems in Arab nations? Yes, there's quite an overlap with what we see in English language government web content! In Ras Al Khaimah (RAK), one of the United Arab Emirates, Basem A. Shahin is fully involved in...