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- Create a "Dead Link Default" page or popup that self populates with the dead link URL and includes an email for notifying the Webmaster for corrections.
- Add hyperlinks for agencies, organizations, and documents referred to in the text of the pages.
- Add user orientation. The homepage header, navigation menu, and navigation bar should remain at the top of the page at all times so the user never feels as if they are getting lost or have hit a dead-end. The text or body of the page should scroll or can be hyperlinked by looped sections.
- Add a regulatory user feedback option. Add a "Complaints, Comments, and Suggestions," link to an email popup on the bottom of each page that self populates with the page URL to allow the user to provide timely feedback. The email can be structured in an MS Outlook survey so it will automatically populate an Excel spreadsheet for ease of follow up, logging, and tracking.
- Include the USDA Footer for including other required, regulatory notifications and user rights, etc.
- For clarity, data integrity, and trust: Match text used with navigation links to the title of the page linked and the text of the page. For example:
A "My Special Project" link on the Project Data Domain Page links to a page entitled: "My Special Project Data Standards and Collaboration Space." The title of the body text on the linked page reads "My Special Data Initiative." The title of the page and the text of the link should be the same. In this case, the navigation bar would look like: "My Special Project/My Special Project Data Standards and Collaboration Space." The link leads to an "Initiative" page. The actual “initiative” should also be available from the Initiative page. The page seems to be about the initiative but there is no definition or link to the initiative. The title of the link implies the user will find many links to standards and collaboration sites which are not included. A possible fix would have a Navigation Bar that reads: "My Special Project/My Special Project Data Standards and Collaboration Space/My Special Data Initiative." The Data Initiative information would be located as a link from the Standards and Collaboration page and would include a definition and reference links. - Ensure user orientation through consistency. Verify data with titles on the navigation bar. The Body and Text of the page should correspond to the title of the page which should be the same as the title of the link in the navigation bar and the title of the link in the text or menu on the page(s) that leads to the linked content.