In general, the site is designed to conform to relevant technical standards and to avoid placing gratuitous barriers in the way of access. We also have a specific policy to conform to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (WCAG) of the World Wide Web Consortium, at level Double-A (W3C, 1999).
Every HTML page in the site is designed to have a common general layout as follows:
This overall layout is identified by approriate level 1 headings (h1 elements); so a browser capable of extracting headings will show this top level structure.
HTML link elements have been used to provide some standardized navigation links on each page; on browsers supporting them, these provide alternative navigation to the in-page site navigation bar. A bypass navigation link is provided as the first link in the site navigation bar. For users of serial access technologies (such as braille displays, speech synthesisers, or high magnification display) this provides a relatively quick means to skip this repetitive navigation information which could otherwise be slow to traverse.
If the main page content is of significant length then it will normally be preceded by a "Contents" section, which contains links directly to the subsections within the page.
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