Website Content

This is a user-centered website, and as such, is intended to represent Lucy's accessible leadership style in an online medium. 

The emphasis of this website is on providing the substantive content that visitors to the site wish to find.  Lucy's web narrative is written in the first person and in her own words as a means of sharing her views and experiences with the people of her District.

In keeping with the neighborly nature of this site, a generous number of photographs and clippings are included to make the user's visit enjoyable as well as informative.

Design Goals

In the design and development of this website, the principles of usability and accessibility have been followed to the extent feasible. Design choices have been made with the objective of creating a website that users will find easy to use. The functionality of this website has been tested prior to publication, using a variety of hardware, browsers, and Internet connection speeds.

The design of this website is intentionally one of simplicity. The organization and navigation of this site is constructed to be clear, consistent, and easy to understand. The frequent use of "headline" subheadings and the presence of "white space" is intended to make online reading more efficient and less frustrating. Efforts have been made to minimize download time, and for the most part, the web pages are of moderate length. 

Because they can present obstacles to usability, frames, two-columned text, moving text, and horizontal scrolling have been avoided. For those who use text readers or who surf the Internet with graphics turned off on their browsers, alternative textual descriptions have been provided for photographs and other images.