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Accessibility and Security
Creating a website which has
increased accessibility benefits not
only those with disabilities but by meeting international standards it will work
with all browsers and on mobile devices. Thus improving accessibility for this
site will mean the website will work better for all users.
Currently this site has not
implemented all accessibility features but it has equivalent
text (W3C, 2013).
That is, in the mark up code for all images, a description of the image is seen
and for those who use screen readers this text can be read aloud. Further it is
also available to technologies that cannot see the image, such as search
engines.
To
continue to make this site accessible colours will be limited
and have a high degree of contrast (Felke-Morris,
In future the booklists
mentioned in the XML plan will be
also provided in PDF following the suggestions of Boudreaqux
Further to improve accessibility
this site will be tested by Cynthiasays.com
Security
Security is a multifaceted challenge
for any website
Additionally there is the issue of
offering a secure site for users. A future development of this site is the
ability for users to purchase the books mentioned or to making direct payment to
Pam for her consultancy. Financial exchanges such as these need
a secure shopping cart feature. The actual lists of recommended book titles does
not need to be secure. If however a shopping cart was to be added enabling the
purchase of the books online, then secure transations are
essential.The alternative is to forward the potential buyer to
a trusted site e.g. Amazon or Pay
Pal, which has the security and technology to ensure the
transaction can be made with confidence. Using a third party which has secure
encryption communication, the user will readily identify this by the
's' in the https web address and
secure lock icon.
Users must also be confident that
the site is trusted in terms of collection of their personal information
including email addresses. As Updike
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