Web and presentation software Year 10

Objectives/Amcanion Know what good practice is when looking at web and presentation design Consider how audience impacts design Consider how disability impacts design

Web and presentation software When designing websites using web software and slide presentations using presentation software, a number of good practice design recommendations can be made:

Good Practice: Sequencing instructions – Provide a few instructions to tell your user about how they can navigate your website or presentation Animation – Slide presentations can use some basic animations to make the information look more interesting on screen. Websites may use Adobe Flash animations. Transitions – It is possible to animate the way that slides and web pages move from one slide or one page to another Links – Hyperlinks allow users to move between different slides and pages by clicking a text link, image or button

Target Audience Presentations and websites must be designed in a way which is appropriate for the people who are viewing it.

Children

Adults, Older Students, Teachers

Appropriate use of standard navigation techniques Navigation – how you move from one webpage or slide to another. Standard navigation techniques – those methods of navigation used in most presentations and websites. Forward/Next and back buttons Use of home button to take user to home page Use of menus Use of links Bookmarks/favourites

Disability considerations 1 Sight impairment: Use zoom in/out buttons. Facility to speak words on the screen. Increase font size. Choose font type that is easy to read. Allow user to change colour scheme.

Disability considerations 2 Hearing impairment: Use visual warnings rather than sound warnings. Use typed versions of any speech used. Use subtitles for any video used.

Task I will individually give you a target audience and you have to make a presentation suited to this target audience. You can make up the topic but it must be appropriate. Key words: Animations Transitions Links Considerations