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Accessibility
Accessibility as it refers to websites is the idea of ensuring those with disabilities can still interact with your website without significant restrictions.
There are numerous best practices to ensure accessibility, and they have evolved in recent years. Staying compliant with accessibility guidelines is both good for your potential user base and will aid your site’s rankings, since these considerations are starting to inform how algorithms view and rank sites.
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Call to Action (CTA)
A Call to Action is any prompt on a website or app asking the user to take a specific action, often in the form of a clickable button. “Buy Now” is a common example, though calls to action don’t always have to involve a purchase. Signing up for a newsletter or downloading a free eBook can be valuable CTAs that increase user trust and also obtain contact information of interested visitors.
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Breadcrumbs
Breadcrumbs provide a navigation trail for users on a website. If they’re in a particular sub-section of the website, breadcrumbs allow them to see how they got there and what previous, high-level topic pages they could view as well that link to their current page.
Having a clear breadcrumb structure for a website is important, since it relates to user experience and avoids confusing visitors to your site.
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API
API stands for Application Programming Interface. It’s used most frequently to refer to how two pieces of software or databases can “talk” to one another. Any plug-in you’ve used for a website or integration between a software application and an internal database would be an example of two interfaces interacting with one another.
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