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• Follows World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) web guidelines and recommendations.
• Passes web accessibility guidelines check and qualifies as Bobby 'AAA' Approved (the highest rating available).
• Passes a formal validation check on the XHMTL language used to create pages.
• Passes a formal validation check on Cascading Style Sheets used for the layout and typefaces on the pages.
• Pages have been tested using a variety of other validation techniques and online checkers, including tests on older browsers and text browsers.
• Pages are still readable and usable without style sheets for browsers that do not support them. (The pages look different on those browsers that don't support stylesheets.)

For more information on accessibility guidelines and checks, visit the following websites:

• Bobby
  A free service for checking webpages for accessbility and compliance with guidelines.
  bobby.watchfire.com
• World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
  The W3C promotes, develops and leads web design and accessibility initiatives, and also provides online validation checkers.
  www.w3.org

• Consistent graphical style and navigation on all pages.
• Uses Cascading Style Sheets for all page layout and design.
• The heading structure and mark up of pages have a logical structure to help users with specialised software to understand the organization of the page.
• Pages have been designed so as to allow users of text browsers and specialised software to access the main content without having to read through navigation links first.
• Under each main page heading is a page description to allow users to quickly gain an understanding of the page's purpose and content.
• The homepage acts like a sitemap and provides a summary of the contents of each section of the site.
• All link phrases make sense when read out of context and also have title tags to provide extra information about a links destination.
• Title tags attached to acronyms and abbreviations give their meanings. (Not supported in Internet Explorer version 6 or earlier.)
• Downloadable documents are available in three formats including a basic HTML alternative.
• Images used for decoration are kept away from main content.

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