Business website construction and operation: approachability, usability, accessibility and Profitability

These four concepts are linked together because they are the four complementary aspects that must be considered when we create and operate commercial websites: You can say that the balance between usability (availability) and accessibility (accessibility), optimized to approachability (accessibility or search engine friendliness), and finally achieved profitability ).

 

Usability resources (availability reference)

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Best Practice:

Web usability: the basics

Beware of opening links in a new window

Ten ways to speed up the download time of your web pages

Writing into tive link text

Opinion pieces

The right time to spend your usability budget

The secret benefit of search engine optimisation: Increased usability

Ten usability blunders of the big players

Accessibility resources (accessible references)

The views and opinions presented in these papers, articles and opinion pieces are those of the author as an individual and may not be representative of the Association of accessibility comprehensionals as a whole.

Introduction to Web Accessibility

Web Accessibility: the basics

Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) & Web Accessibility

Ten quick tests to check your website for accessibility

How disabled users access the Internet

How people with impairments use the Internet

Web Accessibility myths

Listening to a screen reader

An accessible mindset

Accessibility: on a shoe-string

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines in brief

Further reading

Accessibility benefits

Benefits of an accessible website-Part 1: Increase in reach

Benefits of an accessible website-Part 2: The business case

Functional, accessible and good-looking

The secret benefit of accessibility Part 1: Increased usability

The secret benefit of accessibility Part 2: A higher search engine ranking

Accessibility: Not such a bitter pill

Opinion pieces

Access keys, of limited practical value

Text only sites

Ten accessibility blunders of the big players

Manchester United: Top of the Web Accessibility league?

Is accessibility the last great alchemy?

Accessibility: panning for gold

Practical solutions for Web developers

Accessibility footnotes

Web pages and graphics

Accessibility lifecycle and automatic tools