York County Public Schools
- Date Accessed: September 4, 2003
- URL: http://yorkcountyschools.org/
- Content: Content is not available on the homepage.
Web Standards
- HTML 4 or XHTML validation: DOCTYPE! was included for HTML 4 transitional, with 13 errors
- Text-Browsing: Text-only links not required, they show up twice
- Proprietary Code: Macromedia Javascript used
- Editor Used: Dreamweaver
- Number of lines of code: 185
Image Maps, FONT tags, and Flash detectors add to page size bloat.
Usability Concerns
With four main areas for navigation, one might easily become lost. What's more confusing is that the text links towards the bottom of the page do not appear in the same order as the links going across, and down the page.
The Emergency Information looks like a button, but the links above do not. Yet, they all behave the same, as links, or buttons.
There is no content on this page, that alone a usability issue. The address information is repeated. If done outside a graphic, it would only need to be included once.
Accessibility Concerns
The image map won't work for users of a text browser, and ALT attributes are not used consistently. Since rollovers are used across the top, and left-side, they may aid users going after links on the image map with a mouse for targeting the correct area of the map. Of course, image maps would be discouraged for the best accessibility.
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