SEO Tips # 3 : Ensure that your website is accessible

Ensure that your website is safe for screen readers and uses shortcut keys. This does help your SEO, but more importantly it helps your users. There are many other techniques to increase the accessibilty and usability of your website. Another example would be to use buttons that can increase and decrease the font sizes on your site. Just because you can read the font at 0.8em doesn’t mean the next guy can. Alternate stylsheets are also a very big priority. If you have a website with a dark background and light text, this can hurt the eyes of some users. You should always have an alternate stylesheet for these users even if it just a minimalistic black and white stylesheet. If you don’t offer this option, it could easily drive users away from your website.