Enable access to the home page Usability Guideline

Description

Have a link labeled ‘Home’ on every page on the site, except for the home page.

Help

Many sites place the organization’s logo on the top of every page and link it to the homepage. While many users expect logos are clickable, around 25% will not realize that links to the homepage. Therefore, include a link labeled ‘Home’ near the top of the page to help those users.

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

  • 6.46 Sep 2022 Removed - modern sites rarely have a home link.
  • 3.1 Feb 2009 Fixed false positive.
  • 1.0 Feb 2007 Added.

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

Rule ID: UseGov5.1