Week 6 Reading

Goodwill
When it comes to practicing a website, it is all about goodwill, as if maintaining a user-friendly site for the users. At the beginning of the chapter, the author told a story of his own to bring out the problem of most of the existing websites. They hide the information that users want to see; to avoid troubles. It is however, making the users frustrated and lower the likeliness to continue using the website later on. If most of the users come to one site to do some specific tasks, the web builders should make those tasks easy to access so one can go through them right away. After all, it is for the users to use the website the way that benefit them, and it keeps the web site running.
In the chapter after, when most of the people thinking they had created a website useful for everyone, they have to make sure it is assessable. That is, to make the site easy to use for people with disability as well. There should be a lot of tools helping disable people to use the site better on the page, for example, blind people has to go through all of the lines on the page and listen to find some keywords that would probably lead to what they are looking for. To make that step easier, the web builder should put a link on top of each page "skip to main content" so that person can save a lot of time of listening irrelevant contents. If a website is already confusing for the average users, then what about the people with disabilities? One shocking number that the author suggested is that 65% of the population has a disability, so the web designer and developer should not ignore that large portion of people. They might have money to spend and it is the law to benefit them. It is the right thing to do after all, just a bit more effort then they could make life easier for people. I believe there is nothing wrong with that.
Chapter 11 is really inspiring, most of us, average people might not notice how people with disability live their daily life. Some tasks that seem easy for us may take them a much longer time to complete it.
Just as when we are using the computer, it is really easy for us to scan through the whole page and look for the content we want, but for blind people, they have to turn up their speakers, listening closely to each word on the page to find something. With the advanced technology today, I believe it is easier to create assessable website for everyone than a few years ago. When I build a website, I must keep in mind that the users include people with disability as well.

* Designing Accessible Websites 
* Accessible and Attractive Websites
* How to maintain accessible Websites
* 50 tips to build user friendly sites
* 50 Beautiful and user friendly navigation menus