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You
can use the following Checklist as a self-assessment for
your own website. For
every 'yes' give yourself '5' marks. 'No' carries no
marks. To
see how your site fared, look at the bottom of the table
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1. The site was designed
with the aid of user input from the outset
and major revisions have also re-evaluated the wants,
needs and expectations of the target audience.
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2. The site has a domain
name that is easy to spell, pronounce and remember.
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3. The site is accessible
to all users using any device (PC, web enabled mobile
phone and personal digital assistant PDA),
i.e. the site has good accessibility.
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4. The site is
cross-browser compatible. ie. It can be viewed properly in
Netscape, Internet Explorer, Opera and Mozilla.
and is meaningful and functional at a variety of screen resolutions and
window sizes.
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5. The visitor should be
able to go to any page with a minimum links possible i.e
proper navigation to be provided
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6. The site avoids
tenuous use of metaphor unless absolutely appropriate.
Where icons, pictures, or special terminology are used to
represent actions, they are intuitive or standardised and
well known.
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7. Each
page loads quickly. If there is a
substantial delay in rendering the whole page (greater
than 10 seconds) the most informative and important items
become visible and are meaningful while the rest of the
page loads.
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8. Where multimedia, new
web technology or content requiring plug-ins are used, alternatives
with equivalent information are provided.
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9. Frames
are not used. If they are then equivalent
non-frames content is provided via the <NOFRAMES>
tag.
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10. All
pictures have meaningful alternative descriptions provided
via the <ALT> tag
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11. All text
links are meaningful and predictive of their destinations.-
link should be self explanatory
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12. Text
links retain the standard colours: Blue
for unvisited , red/purple for visited.
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13If an application takes
time to download, have you mentioned clearly the file size
of the application and the time that would take to
download (if not applicable put 'yes')
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14. Animation
is used only where it supports the meaning of
functionality of the page.
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15. Page
titles are concise and meaningful and
would make appropriate labels for bookmarks.
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16. When a link is provided on an explanatory narration,
only certain parts of the text like 'click here' should be
hyper linked to the concerned web page
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17. The location
of the page being viewed is indicated clearly on the right
or left top of the page eg : About us -> Financial
position -> Balance sheet.
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18. Links on a current page
do not simply reload the page itself. i.e. no
self-referential links.
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19. The company
logo provides a link to the home page
(except on the homepage).
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20. Windows
are only popped up on a user's screen where absolutely
necessary, preferably not at all.
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21. Back
button functionality is preserved at all times.
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22. Error
messages are written in clear, understandable language
and indicate how to resolve the problem.
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23. Where
appropriate (e.g. big site) a good search facility is
provided - this uses a sensible algorithm
and if possible supports spelling mistakes.
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24. URL's
are meaningful where possible.
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25. Complicated
backgrounds are avoided. Where used
backgrounds do not impair the contrast between foreground
and background.
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26 Are you using extremely
bright colours like fluorescent pink or green or any other
bright colours on the background
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27. Text
size is defined in relative rather than fixed units.
Users can modify the base size of text and the page is
still meaningful and functional.
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28 Less usage of codes
makes the web page light and faster to download.
Are you using cascading style sheets in the site..
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29. All
tables degrade gracefully.- text to appear
first while the rest of the element like images are being
downloaded
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30. If you type in
the browser www.name.com
and if you type name.com
(without www), your web site should appear
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