Findability
To better enable search engines to find and process each page of my site, I added metadata to the document heads. I tried to ensure that the description and keywords were specific in terms of the headings and content on the page.
Accessibility and Usability
- In case someone cannot access the images, I added detail or greater specificity to the image alt and title attributes.
- In order to aid navigation and comprehension of link elements, I added titles even to the internal, navigation links. Title attributes (changed from alt attributes) for external links were already acceptably specific.
- I checked contrast, clarity of navigation, and spacing on each page. Only spacing between lines in the main content div seemed to need enlargement for easier visual processing.
- I switched the h2 and h3 colors so that the headings closest to the text of the main div would contrast more with the text, enhancing ready comprehensibility.
- A breadcrumb trail was not added because site navigation is already very simple, linear, and clear.
- Access keys were considered and attempted; however, they actually decreased usability because all of the number and letter keys were already associated with browser shortcuts; so, access keys were abandoned.
- According to WAVE, my site has no accessibility errors.
Other Updates
I used the W3C HTML and CSS validators. Based on the results, I specified the character encoding for the webpages and fixed a few typos or simple errors, such as the "wrap" div that was not closed. Several warnings and error messages seemed mistaken when I looked back at my XHTML and CSS documents, and a few errors that I did not address were part of the Creative Commons license in the footers.>
