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Level A conformance icon, W3C-WAI Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0

Web Accessibility Initiative

The Stationery Office (tSO) have implemented the Official Documents website to conform to the Web Accessability Initative (WAI) "A" Rating.

The priority 1 checklist is included below. Further information is available from www.w3.org

In addition, we have implemented "accesskeys" so that users can use the keyboard to navigate to major content channels and functionality on the website. The accesskeys are used in the following way. Press the "ALT" key and the other key defined together. Release them and then press the "return" key.

The accesskeys have been assigned as follows:

ALT & 1 for Home Page

ALT & 2 for Command Papers

ALT & 3 for House of Commons Papers

ALT & 4 for Departmental Papers

ALT & 5 for Search

ALT & 6 for Site Map

ALT & 7 for Contact Us

ALT & 8 for Links

ALT & Z is a skip function that will allow the user to skip past the the navigation bar that appears on each page and move to the start of the content on that page.

When you are in a specific document then the following "accesskeys" can be used to navigate between the various chunks as an alternative to using the "Contents", "Previous" and "Next" links:

ALT & ? (Question Mark) for Contents

ALT & , (Comma) for Previous

ALT & . (Full Point) for Next

Priority 1 Checklist

How this site met the Priority 1 Checklist:

   
         
 

In General (Priority 1)

Yes

No

N/A

1.1 Provide a text equivalent for every non-text element (e.g., via "alt", "longdesc", or in element content). This includes: images, graphical representations of text (including symbols), image map regions, animations (e.g., animated GIFs), applets and programmatic objects, ascii art, frames, scripts, images used as list bullets, spacers, graphical buttons, sounds (played with or without user interaction), stand-alone audio files, audio tracks of video, and video.

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2.1 Ensure that all information conveyed with color is also available without color, for example from context or markup.

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4.1 Clearly identify changes in the natural language of a document's text and any text equivalents (e.g., captions).

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6.1 Organize documents so they may be read without style sheets. For example, when an HTML document is rendered without associated style sheets, it must still be possible to read the document.

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6.2 Ensure that equivalents for dynamic content are updated when the dynamic content changes.

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7.1 Until user agents allow users to control flickering, avoid causing the screen to flicker.

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14.1 Use the clearest and simplest language appropriate for a site's content.

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And if you use images and image maps (Priority 1)

Yes No N/A

1.2 Provide redundant text links for each active region of a server-side image map.

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9.1 Provide client-side image maps instead of server-side image maps except where the regions cannot be defined with an available geometric shape.

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And if you use tables (Priority 1)

Yes No N/A

5.1 For data tables, identify row and column headers.

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5.2 For data tables that have two or more logical levels of row or column headers, use markup to associate data cells and header cells.

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And if you use frames (Priority 1)

Yes No N/A

12.1 Title each frame to facilitate frame identification and navigation.

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And if you use applets and scripts (Priority 1)

Yes No N/A

6.3 Ensure that pages are usable when scripts, applets, or other programmatic objects are turned off or not supported. If this is not possible, provide equivalent information on an alternative accessible page.

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And if you use multimedia (Priority 1)

Yes No N/A

1.3 Until user agents can automatically read aloud the text equivalent of a visual track, provide an auditory description of the important information of the visual track of a multimedia presentation.

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1.4 For any time-based multimedia presentation (e.g., a movie or animation), synchronize equivalent alternatives (e.g., captions or auditory descriptions of the visual track) with the presentation.

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And if all else fails (Priority 1)

Yes No N/A

11.4 If, after best efforts, you cannot create an accessible page, provide a link to an alternative page that uses W3C technologies, is accessible, has equivalent information (or functionality), and is updated as often as the inaccessible (original) page.

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