- Use uncluttered, simple screen layout
- Use consistent navigation and design on every page
- Justify the text only on the left. Use ragged edge right-hand margins
- Use wide margins
- Use more space between lines (1.5 to 2 times line spacing)
- Don’t split words at the end of the line
- Avoid the presentation of text in many columns. Use a 1 column (or max 2 columns with graphics) layout with generous margins on each side
- Do not present information as a brochure or other presentation formats that do not read like a standard book
- Avoid or minimize automatic and vertical scrolling. Students may not read at the same rate as scrolling feature
- Avoid the horizontal scrolling of the text
- Limit the use of background images
- Never use shading
- Avoid the use of page frames
- Avoid background audio sound