Web content of BilgeIş portal provides services in line with usability standards andcriteria. Within the scope of usability and accessibility standards, portal offers thefollowing features:

• 1.PORTAL, PROVIDES TEXT ALTERNATIVES FOR NON-TEXTUAL CONTENTS. FOR EXAMPLE, AS ANALTERNATIVE TO IMAGES, AUDIO AND VIDEO CONTENTS, SEARCH OR DATA SEARCH BOXES, SAMECONTENT IS PROVIDED THROUGH TEXT.
• 2.IT CREATES AN ALTERNATIVE FOR CONTENTS ONLY CONTAINING AUDIO MATERIAL, SILENTANIMATION OR SILENT VIDEO.
• 3.SUBTITLES ARE PROVIDED FOR AUDIBLE VIDEOS.
• 4.TEXTUAL ALTERNATIVES ARE PROVIDED FOR AUDIBLE VIDEOS.
• 5.IT CREATES AN ALTERNATIVE FOR CONTENTS ONLY CONTAINING AUDIO MATERIAL, SILENTANIMATION OR SILENT VIDEO.
• 6. CONTENT PRESENTATION IS PROVIDED THROUGH RATIONAL SEQUENCE.
• 7. USER IS DIRECTED BY USABLE INSTRUCTIONS THROUGH TEXT. INSTRUCTIONS ARE PROVIDED USING MULTIPLE DIRECTION STYLES SUCH AS SHAPE, SOUND, LOCATION AND DIMENSION ELEMENTS.
• 8. CONTENT IS PROVIDED WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF APPROPRIATE COLOUR USAGE RULES BY CONSIDERING POTENTIAL VISUALLY IMPAIRED USERS WITH IMPAIRED COLOUR PERCEPTION. ATTENTION IS GIVEN NOT TO PRESENT INSTRUCTIONS, TABLES, GRAPHICS AND ALL PRESENTATION COMPONENTS ONLY BY COLOUR-BASED METHODS.
• 9. AUDIO CONTENT OF PORTAL IS PRESENTED IN A WAY THAT IT DOES NOT START WITHOUT USERREQUEST.
• 10. BY CONSIDERING USERS’ MASTERY ON FINE MOTOR ACTIVITIES, ALL SECTIONS OF PORTAL PROVIDES USABILITY WITH KEYBOARD.
• 11. BY CONSIDERING READING-LISTENING- WATCHING COMPETENCIES OF USERS, TIME LIMIT IS DISREGARDED IN CONTENT PRESENTATIONS.
• 12. WHILE PRESENTING ANIMATED CONTENT (BLINKING WARNINGS, SLIDING CONTENTS, AUTO UPDATING SECTIONS), USERS ARE PROVIDED DUE CONTROLS TO STOP OR RESTART ANIMATIONS.
• 13. IN CONFORMITY TO USABILITY PRINCIPLES, A BLINKING CONTENT OR A PART OF A VISUAL CANNOT BLINK MORE THAN THREE TIMES PER SECOND.
• 14. IN ORDER TO ACCELERATE NAVIGATION PROCESS WITHIN THE PORTAL, USERS ARE PROVIDED WITH STRUCTURES, LINKS AND CONTENT MENU TREES ALLOWING THEM TO JUMP THROUGH NESTED CONTENT BY ROUTING.
• 15. IN ORDER TO PROVIDE MORE ACCURATE AND EXPLICIT INFORMATION ABOUT CONTENTS PRESENTED ON PAGES AND PAGES THEY ARE CURRENTLY BROWSING, USEFUL AND CLEAR PAGE TITLES ARE USED.
• 16. IN ORDER FOR USERS TO FIND THEIR WAYS THROUGH PORTAL BY USING RATIONAL SEQUENCE LINKS, A LOGICAL ORDER STRUCTURE IS PROVIDED. THUS IT IS ENSURED THAT USERS CAN EASILY BROWSE AMONG PAGES.
• 17. WHERE LINKS USED WILL DIRECT USERS WITHIN THE PORTAL IS EXPLICITLY AND CLEARLY DESCRIBED IN LINK CONTENTS. THUS, USERS WILL NOT FACE UNEXPECTED PAGES AND CONTENTS.
• 18. THERE IS NO LANGUAGE DESIGNATED FOR EACH PAGE AND CONTENT WITHIN THE PORTAL. THUS, USERS DO NOT CONFRONT WITH DIFFERENT LANGUAGES ON THE SAME PAGES.
• 19. COMPONENTS THAT USERS ARE FOCUSED IN THE PORTAL, DO NOT CHANGE AUTOMATICALLY.
• 20. WHILE USERS LOG INTO THE PORTAL, INVOLUNTARY REDIRECTION IS NOT ALLOWED.
• 21. WHEN AN ERROR IS IDENTIFIED IN THE PORTAL, INPUT ERRORS ARE EXPLICITLY PROVIDED. THEREFORE USERS ARE INFORMED ABOUT THE SITUATION THEY HAVE CONFRONTED WITH.
• 22. ICONS, LABEL COMPONENTS, FORM INPUT ELEMENTS AND INSTRUCTIONS USED IN THE PORTAL ARE STRUCTURED IN A MANNER THAT THEY WILL HELP USERS WITH ACCURATE REDIRECTION.
• 23. THERE ARE NO MAJOR ENCODING ERRORS WITHIN THE PORTAL.
• 24. ALL COMPONENTS OF THE PORTAL ARE ENCODED IN ACCORDANCE WITH ACCESSIBILITY AND USABILITY STANDARDS.