The Easy View Access Key rewards those sites which allow users to create individual settings. Many people have poor vision that is not bad enough to require screen magnification software and they just might want slightly larger font sizes. Alternatively someone with eyes tired from a long day at work might want to use a personal style sheet with colours they find easier to read. Others might have a slow dial-up connection and do not want to wait to load graphics or run scripts.
By enabling users to turn off style sheets, images and scripts or by changing font sizes and colours someone who wants to create their own viewing settings can more easily view your site. By using text colours and background colours that contrast sufficiently you also help users suffering from colour blindness or using their PDA to look up information in their car and subject to on-screen glare. The more opportunities to customise settings and still understand your website the more accessible people using various methods of surfing the internet or with different preferences for absorbing content will find your site.
Update static content when you update multimedia content so users who are unable to view the multimedia do not have a poor experience.
Read about how Alt Page criterion scoring works.
Keep background audio in multimedia low enough to ensure main content can be heard and understood properly.
Read about how Background Audio criterion scoring works.
Users with colour blindness may have trouble seeing information highlighted by colour alone so use more than just colour. For example, if a user has missed out on a form field do not just highlight the field in red also add an asterisk or some other pointer.
Read about how Colour criterion scoring works.
People with low vision or even tired eyes will find reading your pages easier if you have sufficient colour contrast between background and text and in images.
Read about how Colour Contrast criterion scoring works.
Refraining from using deprecated tags will enable you to separate structure from presentation benefiting users who may want to view your site differently to the way it was constructed.
See a list of deprecated tags and attributes.
Read about how Deprecated criterion scoring works.
By not using fixed widths on your site either for fonts or for columns you enable users who may want to enlarge the size of the text on their screen.
Read about how Font Size criterion scoring works.
Provide proper captions/subtitles and sign language for any multimedia so deaf users can experience your content. Also provide a transcript for those who may want or need to view the content in text format.
Read about how Multimedia Sound criterion scoring works.
Provide links to free plug-ins where plug-ins are required.
Read about how Plug-ins criterion scoring works.
By separating structure from presentation you make it possible for users to apply their own style sheets to your pages or turn them off altogether. It eliminates the need for complex nested layout tables and ensures pages linearise properly.
Read about how Structure criterion scoring works.
Your site should work without JavaScript. Users running older browsers or computers or using a text browser or mobile device will still want to access all the different functions and pages available.
Read about how Without JavaScript criterion scoring works.
Users may want to disable CSS because they find styles distracting or hard to read. They may have their own user-defined style sheets that make pages easier for them. Pages need to display properly when arranged in a linear fashion for people using text browsers.
Read about how Without Styles criterion scoring works.