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Library Web Guidelines
LCC
Library Web Guidelines help
ensure that our website is fully accessible to all visitors. They also
provide a means of standardization in format, so that our web pages are easy to
navigate and understand - regardless of your physical ability or country of
origin.
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Library Web Accessibility Guidelines*
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Text-only equivalents (such as alt text, d
tags & transcripts) will be used for any graphic or multimedia
information
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Colors will be navigational aids but will not be the only means of conveying
information
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Colors used on the website will be those distinguishable by the color blind
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Tables will be logically structured with column headers (for ease of 'tabbing through')
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Forms will have an email alternative
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No blinking or flickering text will be used
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Very high contrast between text and backgrounds will be provided
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All hyperlink titles will be meaningful (never just 'click here')
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Library Web Formatting Standards
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Follow prescribed
LCC Web Guidelines and in addition:
Use the International Date Standard - day in numbers, month in letters, and year in
numbers (example: 11 April 1967)
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Use area codes in all phone numbers:
example: (517) 483 -1957 or 517.483.1957
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*Accessibility guidelines are based on the
Web Content
Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and
Section 508 of the Rehabilitation
Act
(United States Federal Electronic and Information Technology
Accessibility Standards).
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