The primary goal of the Department of Educational Psychology's public website is to attract and retain students. The website includes information on our academic programs, research, people, diversity and inclusion, and department news. https://edpsych.umn.edu/.
We strive to make our website accessible to everyone and aim to follow these guidelines for guidelines for accessible content from Accessible U.
People only read about 20 percent of a page online, so it should be easy to skim and succinct in plain language. Some tips for accessible writing are included below:
We conduct regular user testing on our public website, usually running focus groups with student volunteers in spring semester to assess the state of our current site and test out new ideas.
Before our last major website overhaul, we conducted user testing with the University's Usability Lab.