Reference : www.primepointfoundation.org
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You can
use the following Checklist as a self-assessment for your own website. For every 'yes' give yourself '5' marks.
'No' carries no marks. To see how
your site fared, look at the bottom of the table
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YES
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NO
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1.
The site was designed with the aid of user input from
the outset and major revisions have also re-evaluated the wants, needs and
expectations of the target audience.
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2.
The site has a domain name that is easy to spell, pronounce and remember.
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3.
The site is accessible to all users using any device (PC, web enabled
mobile phone and personal digital assistant PDA), i.e. the
site has good accessibility.
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4.
The site is cross-browser compatible. ie. It can be viewed properly in Netscape,
Internet Explorer, Opera and Mozilla.
and is meaningful and functional at a variety of screen
resolutions and window sizes.
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5.
The visitor should be able to go to any page with a minimum links possible
i.e proper navigation to be provided
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6.
The site avoids tenuous use of metaphor unless absolutely appropriate.
Where icons, pictures, or special terminology are used to represent actions,
they are intuitive or standardised and well known.
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7.
Each
page loads quickly. If there is a substantial delay in
rendering the whole page (greater than 10 seconds) the most informative and
important items become visible and are meaningful while the rest of the page
loads.
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8.
Where multimedia, new web technology or content requiring plug-ins are used, alternatives
with equivalent information are provided.
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9.
Frames
are not used. If they are then equivalent non-frames content
is provided via the <NOFRAMES> tag.
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10.
All
pictures have meaningful alternative descriptions provided
via the <ALT> tag
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11.
All text
links are meaningful and predictive of their destinations.-
link should be self explanatory
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12.
Text
links retain the standard colours: Blue for unvisited ,
red/purple for visited.
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13If
an application takes time to download, have you mentioned clearly the file
size of the application and the time that would take to download (if not
applicable put 'yes')
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14.
Animation
is used only where it supports the meaning of functionality of the page.
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15.
Page
titles are concise and meaningful and would make appropriate
labels for bookmarks.
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16. When a link is provided on an
explanatory narration, only certain parts of the text like 'click here'
should be hyper linked to the concerned web page
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17.
The location
of the page being viewed is indicated clearly on the right or left top of the
page eg : About us -> Financial position -> Balance sheet.
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18.
Links on a current page do not simply reload the page itself. i.e. no self-referential
links.
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19.
The company
logo provides a link to the home page (except on the
homepage).
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20.
Windows
are only popped up on a user's screen where absolutely necessary,
preferably not at all.
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21.
Back
button functionality is preserved at all times.
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22.
Error
messages are written in clear, understandable language and
indicate how to resolve the problem.
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23.
Where
appropriate (e.g. big site) a good search facility is provided
- this uses a sensible algorithm and if possible supports spelling mistakes.
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24.
URL's
are meaningful where possible.
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25.
Complicated
backgrounds are avoided. Where used backgrounds do not impair
the contrast between foreground and background.
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26
Are you using extremely bright colours like fluorescent pink or green or any
other bright colours on the background
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27.
Text
size is defined in relative rather than fixed units. Users
can modify the base size of text and the page is still meaningful and
functional.
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28
Less usage of codes makes the web page light and faster to download. Are you using cascading style sheets in
the site..
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29.
All
tables degrade gracefully.- text to appear first while the
rest of the element like images are being downloaded
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30. If you type in the browser www.name.com
and if you type name.com (without
www), your web site should appear
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RATING
130 – 150 points -
Very usable website
100-125 points
- Site is good but can do with improvements
70 – 95 –
Average website. Needs proper look into its usability
Below 70 - Bad
website. Please make use of a
professional web designer and developer to redo the website.
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