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Ensure the home page looks like a home page Usability Guideline

Description

Ensure that the homepage has the necessary characteristics to be easily perceived as a homepage. No search, site map and contact us links found on the homepage.

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It is important that pages ’lower’ in a site are not confused with the homepage. Users have come to expect that certain actions are possible from the homepage. These actions include, among others, finding important links, accessing a site map or index, and conducting a search.

Applicable standards

Note: The guidelines.usability.gov website has been down since July 2020, although www.usability.gov is still operating and the PDF version of the guidelines is still available.

Change history

  • 5.36 Jan 2020 Removed - only worked for full site scans on English language sites.
  • 1.0 Feb 2007 Added.

This page describes a web site issue detected in HTML documents by SortSite Desktop and OnDemand Suite.

Rule ID: UseGov5.6