Site Report
This tab shows general usability issues, indicating navigation problems for all users.
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 | Usability.gov Guidelines - Some pages violate these guidelines. | | |
| W3C Best Practices - Some pages violate these guidelines. | | |
 | Readability - No issues found.
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| Priority | Description and URL | Guideline and Line# | Count |
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Priority 11 issues on 1 pages | |
 | Users should be able to quickly look at each link and tell where it goes. | Usability.gov 10:1 | 1 pages |
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Don't use generic link labels like "click here" or "read more" because they're hard to tell apart when users scan a page. | | |
| Link text:
Go
Read More Read More Read More
https://www.swc.ac.uk/ | Line 699 755 811 893 | |
Priority 24 issues on 3 pages | |
 | Avoid underlined text - people will click on it and think it's a broken link. | Usability.gov 10:4 | 2 pages |
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Use something other than underlining for highlighting text, because it looks like a link, and users become
frustrated when the "link" does not work. | | |
| https://www.swc.ac.uk/ | Line 119 123 131 156 | |
| https://www.swc.ac.uk/App_Themes/swc/css/main.min.css | Line 164 | |
| | Omitting img width or height attributes makes the page layout jump about as images load. | Usability.gov 14:3 W3C | 1 pages |
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This makes the page very hard to read or click while it's loading.
Fix by adding width and height attributes to the img tag matching the image dimensions.
In responsive layouts, specifying width and height prevents layout jumping because the browser can
pre-calculate the final image size when CSS like this is used:
img { max-width: 100%; height: auto }
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| https://www.swc.ac.uk/ | Line 354 587 1298 1518 1526
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| | Use background images sparingly and make sure they are simple, especially behind text. | Usability.gov 14:1 | 1 pages |
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Background images can make it difficult for users to read foreground text. A single, large, complex background image (including a picture) can substantially slow page download rates. | | |
| https://www.swc.ac.uk/App_Themes/swc/foundation/css/foundation.min.css | Line 469 | |
| | Use text links rather than image links. In general, text links are more easily recognized as clickable. | Usability.gov 10:6 | 1 pages |
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Text links usually download faster, are preferred by users, and should change colors after being selected. It is usually easier to convey a link's destination in text, rather than with the use of an image.
Users often find it hard to tell which images are clickable without moving the cursor over them ('minesweeping').
Another benefit to using text links is that users with text-only and deactivated graphical browsers can see the navigation options. | | |
| https://www.swc.ac.uk/ | Line 1526 | |
Priority 32 issues on 3 pages | |
 | Use at least a 12-point font on all web pages. | Usability.gov 11:8 | 3 pages |
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For users over age 65, it may be better to use at least fourteen-point fonts.
Never use less than nine-point font on a Web site.
The following are all smaller than 12 point:
- <p style="font-size: 11pt;" >
- <p style="font-size: 15px;" >
- <p style="font-size: small;" >
- <font size="2" >
- <font size="-1" >
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| https://www.swc.ac.uk/ | Line 119 121 123 125 127
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| https://www.swc.ac.uk/App_Themes/swc/css/main.min.css | Line 290 1349 1370 | |
| https://www.swc.ac.uk/siteStyle/swc.min.css?frameX | Line 71 98 110 115 116
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| | Use link text between 3 and 100 characters so it's long enough to be understood, but avoids line wrapping. | Usability.gov 10:11 | 1 pages |
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A single word text link may not give enough information about the link's destination. A link that is a full sentence is difficult to read quickly, particularly if it wraps to another line. | | |
| https://www.swc.ac.uk/ | Line 893 | |
Priority 41 issues on 1 pages | |
 | Make sure one radio button in a radio button group is always selected. If users can choose not to activate any of the radio button choices, provide a choice labeled 'None'. | Usability.gov 13:23 | 1 pages |
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| https://www.swc.ac.uk/ | Line 512 518 | |
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