Layout and Structure

The overall layout of your web pages or even your entire website can contribute to your accessibility efforts.

Overall Website Structure

If pages on your site have repeated content, such as a navigation menu, users should have a way to skip over this content as it will largely be the same across every page they visit. Users should be able to tell what part of your website they are one. The breadcrumbs produced as part of the TTU template can help fulfill this requirement. Navigational and help elements across a site should appear in the same place on every page. This is also largely controlled by the TTU template. There should be more than one way to get to every page on your site, as users that miss the first reference to a given page.

Structure Within a Page

Every web page should have a meaningful title that describes what the page is discussing. The meaningful order of content on the page should always stay the same. As an example, a web page showing two articles should never interweave the paragraphs of these articles. A user's device orientation should not affect the content or functionality of a page. A page can scroll either horizontally or vertically, but should never scroll in both dimensions.