Designing websites for people with learning disabilities
Key Points
Introduction
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Websites should be made so that everyone can use them.
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We have written some rules to help people make their websites easier to
use.
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Tell us what you think about our rules by emailing us at webteam@fpld.org.uk
The Rules
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Ask people with learning difficulties to help you make your website.
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Write a guide for your website, which tells people what your website is
for and what is on it.
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Make sure the information on your website is accurate and interesting.
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Put the information on your website in an order that is easy to follow.
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Don't put too much information on one page.
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Use simple language that everyone can understand.
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Use the same design on all the pages and keep it simple and easy to understand.
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Put the most important information in the middle of the screen.
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Put things like buttons and links in the same place on each page, so that
people know where to find them.
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Put these buttons on every page: Exit, Home, Help, Next Page, Last Page.
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Use pictures, colours and sounds to help people understand the information
on your website.
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If you want, you can put things that people like to do on your site. Things
like games.
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Additional Resources
Website design: a select list of resources.
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The information on this page is taken from other pages on this website.
It was last updated on
5 September, 2005
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