Web Design Discussion

Recently I began redesigning a new web site for my web site design business and thought it would be a good idea to make it as web accessible as possible. People who have various disabilities find it difficult to access the Web. This might be because they have bad eye site, are blind, deaf or have limited dexterity.

Top 7 Benefits of Web Accessibility

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Most site owners don’t bother making their web site accessible because they don’t recognize the benefits. It also means greater care needs to be taken when designing the site. If you employ a professional site designer it will cost more than building a regular site because it will take more time.

What is an accessible web site?

Web accessibility means making web pages accessible to people using a wide range of software and devices, not just standard Web browsers. This especially applies to people with disabilities such as visual impairment.

Which audience does web accessibility apply to?

Visual impairments

Blindness, common types of low vision and poor eyesight, various types of colour blindness.

Motor/Mobility

Difficulty or inability to use the hands, including tremors, muscle slowness, loss of fine muscle control, etc., due to conditions such as Parkinson’s Disease, muscular dystrophy, cerebral palsy, stroke.

Cognitive/Intellectual

Developmental disabilities, learning disabilities (dyslexia, dyscalculia, etc.), and cognitive disabilities, affecting memory, attention, developmental “maturity,” problem-solving and logic skills, etc.

Auditory

Deafness or hearing impairments, including individuals who are hard of hearing.

Seizures

Seizures caused by visual strobe or flashing effects.

My next post will discuss the Benefits of Web Accessibility

1. Google is stricter with new domain names so it’s more difficult to get high rankings with new domain names.
The older your web site is the better. New domain names have to prove they are trustworthy before they can get high rankings.

2. Strive to get good inbound links and work on them continuously. A good inbound link is one that compliments your site’s content, has a good ranking, attracts lots of traffic and does not use spammy techniques.

3. The longer other web sites link to your site and new web sites also begin to link to yours the more likely you’ll get high rankings.

4. Be sure to optimize the links to your site by including your main keywords in the link text.

5. Work on optimizing your web page content if you wish to improve the rankings for an old domain that already has lots of good inbound links.

6. A new domain needs to show Google it can be trusted by building correct links to your site from other web sites plus use good SEO methods to promote your web site on the search engines.

7. Valuable domains are often paid for several years in advance while doorway or throwaway domains are rarely used for more than a year. To determine the value of a domain, Google records the following information:

* the length of the domain registration (one year to several years)
* the address of the web site owner, the admin and the technical contact
* the stability of data and host company
* the number of pages on a web site (web sites must have more than one page)

8. Google may also check the information of a name server in several ways. For example, good name servers might have a mix of different domain names from different registrars.

Bad name servers might host mainly adult or doorway domains.

Conclusion

Whether you have an old domain or registered a new domain you can avoid Goggle’s spam filters by continuously adding new content, Obtaining high quality inbound links from other sites, hosting with a reputable company and registering your domain name for several years in advance. Building an online business that gets lots of traffic takes persistence over a period of time.