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Website Usability/Compliance Review
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The last thing you want is for people to leave your site because it's difficult to navigate. Think of it as going to a Drive-Thru resturaunt and looking at a menu that has so many options and is so intimidating with no real rhyme, reason or organization that helps you find something as simple as a cheeseburger; it might encourage you to seek sustinence elsewhere.

How does that apply to your site? Studies have shown that 83% of Internet users will leave a website if they have to make too many clicks to find relevant information.

Let us take a look at

• Home Page – Is your home page making a good first impression? If your main page doesn't send the proper message, the customer could click back before venturing further into your site.
  
  
• Navigation – Is your website navigation consistent on every page of your site? Do all your links work or send you to the intended destination?
  
  
• Content – Does the text on your website address the visitors? Are your services well explained and do they leave with the impression you can help them?
  
  
• Color Scheme – Is your color scheme sending the right message? Are your colors in great enough contrast to serve visitors who are vision impared?
  
  
• Page Layout - Are pages too long or too cluttered?

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Other than the aforementioned, DDU has a committment to make sure all of our web designs are accessible. More specifically that they are ADA compliant. To make sure our websites are i accessible to as wide a variety of visitors as possible we use 508 compliance rules to ensure that your site can utilize various text sizes, flashing lights and motions are kept to a minumum and that color contrasts (as mentioned above) don't make your text difficult to read for your users.

"Section 508 of the US Workforce Investment Act 2001 requires many government and government–related websites to provide “equal or equivalent access to everyone”, including those with physical and visual impairments."

These requirements are not mandatory for most non–government websites, but the same way you wouldn't build a house without doornobs or furnish a room with no lights we won't build you a webpage that every potential customer can not use.