Increasing Web accessibility: Quick lessons for web designers
Being associated with a branded web design company, one is bound to work on large-scale project for most of the time. In many occasions, web designers have to go through critical design stages and typical Do’s and Don’ts. It could be with web accessibility, screen size (resolution), free flow concept (navigation), site layout or site loading processes. Effectively a good web designer has to cross a number of critical paths before presenting the finished product to viewers.
Opening time of a website or downloading a webpage from server always plays a crucial role in creating successful website. A designer always needs to put emphasis on website downloading time to ensure, bounce rate is less and browser is impressed.
Here in this article, we will discuss – how web designers remain busy with important designer ethics: Image loading, JavaScript features to minimize the downloading error.
Image loading:
It does not matter; you put a great opening image on your website, if people turn off image loading option. Think once again! How embarrassing it could be. You and your client might be impressed with the image quality, pixels, resolution and graphics part of it. But, what happens if some people will never see it.
Unbelievably, turning off images is incredibly a common affair. So, cool designers need to be prepared with it.
Here are few tips for them:
First, set the exact width and height of each image. If you are hand coding, decide on width= and height=.
Set an Alt text, so you see something on the spot where the image is going to be loaded. For hand coding use Alt=
Page’s readability is the most important criteria. If you are about to use any visual chart and express scientific observations, place a table next to the chart. By showing the numeric data, you can add accessibility to the content.
JavaScript Loading:
If you think beyond plain HTML and do not want loading time to be an issue, you have to do justice with JavaScript technology. JS helps you to do all sort of things and add many interactive features to the website, such as drop down menus, In-page calculators and more.
But, most of the people turn it off. Some even do not know how to enable JS and enjoy the features. Some people with full-fledged browser disable JS for security reasons. It is your sheer bad luck and a loss to client’s resource.
So, what remedy do you have? Assume your JS is not worth to be here and make sure the site can also be accessed properly, when someone turn off the JavaScript feature.
How will you do that?
Let us take a common website feature of JavaScript i.e. dropdown “mouseover” menu option. Say, you have made a list of seven days in a column from Sunday to Saturday and created a menu “Days” representing each of them. Now with JavaScript disabled, the “Days” will never appear. How will make it available?
It is easy. Just link it to a webpage where it reads “Days”. Then on that separate “Days” page use standard HTML links to each day (Sunday to Saturday). This is a basic method and is great for JavaScript disabled webpage information.
Many other external and internal factors determine that people need accessibility more than the technology. So, a web designer must do anything and everything in the world to make a site widely accessible. You can make a contact with Chicago web designer to know more into it.
About the Author: Robert Johnson is a technology content writer who shares news on major website design updates. He recommends Bit Studios – a Chicago SEO company offering white hat SEO services to their clients. You can hire the best of the web designer Chicago from them. To contact please make a visit to http://www.bitstudios.com/
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