Index:
- Navigation issues.
- Navigation plan.
- Access Key navigation.
- Alternative methods.
- Links.
- Resources and references.
The navigation hierarchies on many web sites are confusing which frustrates visitors to a website,
they can't find what they actually want.
- Global Navigation.
- Each page will have a simular layout.
A navigation bar with links to the main subject areas and a
Site Info panel relating to information about construction of the site.
- Page Navigation.
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Where appropriate pages will have an index leading uses to subsections of the page.
For example as used in this page.
Index:
- Navigation issues.
- Navigation plan.
- Access Key navigation.
- Alternative methods.
- Links.
- Resources and references.
- KISS or Keep it Simple Stupid.
- Subject areas are organised into separate folders.
Clicking onto the audio link on the navigation bar takes you to files about audio.
- Breadcrumbs.
- The user knows where they are in relation to the whole site. In the example below the user knows they have
reached a page about accessible design which is in the
design section of a my (dazza) website.
dazza | design > accessible design
Clicking onto the link named design takes the user one level up the
hierarchy to the starting page of the design section.
Access key navigation is used throughout this site.
Visitors can go to a page by pressing a key.
H = home.
R = resume.
A = Audio.
S = Showcase.
D = Design.
C = Contact Details.
To activate the access key on a Macintosh computer hold CTL + H to get to the home page.
Karen Stuart, "The Top Ten Mistakes of Web Design", internet.au, issue 84 Oct 2002, p 31.
W3C Web Accessibility Initiative.
http://www.w3c.org/WAI/