Designing websites- information from the Foundation for People with learning Disabilities

The Rules

• Ask people with learning difficulties to help you make your website

• Write a guide for your website which tells people what your website is for and what is on it

• Make sure the information on your website is accurate and interesting

• Put the information on your website in an order that is easy to follow

• Don't put too much information on one page

• Use simple language that everyone can understand

• Use the same design on all the pages and keep it simple and easy to understand

• Put the most important information in the middle of the screen

• Put things like buttons and links in the same place on each page, so that people know where to find them

• Put these buttons on every page: Exit, Home, Help, Next Page, Last Page

• Use pictures, colours and sounds to help people understand the information on your website

• If you want, you can put things that people like to do like games on your site

More information about designing websites

Tell us what you think about our rules by emailing us at webteam@fpld.org.uk