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The City of Austell
has developed consistent and strategic guidelines
for the construction of online pages and services
that appear as part of austell.org. These
guidelines are used to help ensure a positive user
experience and easier accessibility by maintaining a
consistent page layout, information architecture,
and navigational structure. In addition, the
guidelines assist contributors to the site in
developing a site that reflects the suggestions set
forth in the World Wide Web Consortium's Web
Accessibility Initiative.
Guidelines for
austell.org include:
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All images on this web site
contain alternative text descriptions for the
benefit of the user's utilizing assistive
technologies.
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All navigational image maps
contain alternate, text-based hyperlinks in a
clearly defined area.
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All pages and documents contain
appropriate meta-tag information to ensure useful
search functions.
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All online forms are also
available for request in other formats, such as
hardcopy and can be faxed or e-mailed.
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Frames are never used on
austell.org as they are not interpretable by
assistive technologies such as screen readers and
can often cause severe navigational breakdowns.
Use of Portable
Document Format (.PDF)
Documents
The City of
Austell uses Adobe Acrobat to create .pdf files to
provide online access to City documents in their
original formatting. In order to access these
documents,
and requires the free Acrobat
Reader plug in
from Adobe. |
