To have a website with good design the website needs to be user friendly aswell as aesthetic. The website needs to therefore be accessible to people with handicaps such as the blind who may want to use a screen reader to read a website. Web accessibility refers to the practice of making websites usable by people of all abilities and disabilities.
So that sites are correctly designed, developed and edited, all users can have equal access to information and functionality. For example, when a site is coded with semantically meaningful HTML, with textual equivalents provided for images and with links named meaningfully, this helps blind users using text-to-speech software such as a screenreader.
The current state of the website http://www.thewho.net/australia is fairly user friendly, because the website adheres to level 1 of the W3C accessibility standards (http://www-mit.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/) it makes the site very user friendly. Although for the average user the site isn’t so user friendly with a confusing contents page with a lot of links that could easily have their own separate page. Most websites are managed to be very user friendly so that people return to visit the site, so by changing the sites structure it will make the site more user friendly so that users will return to the site more often.
Each page should have the website banner at the top of the page which should also double as a link to the home page to make the website flow allot smoother and make it more user friendly for the viewers of the site.
These simple steps will make the website a lot more user friendly.
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