Website Style Guide
Index
Content
Architecture
Graphic Design
Writing for the Web
- Presenting Text on
the Web
- Inverted Pyramid Style
of Writing
- Plain and Clear Language
- Sentence and Paragraph
Length
- Hyperlink Text
- Error Message and Form
Validation Text
Microcontent
- Alt Tags
- Page Title Standards
- Meta Tags
- Headings
- Introductory Paragraphs
- Image Filenames
Miscellaneous
- Standardised Text
- Website Directory
Guidelines
- Accessibility Guidelines
- Text as Images
Glossaries
- Glossary of Style
- Glossary of Terms
Accessibility Guidelines - Miscellaneous
Updated: 23rd July 2001
- Provide equivalent alternatives to auditory and visual content.
- Don't rely on colour alone.
- Clarify natural language usage
- Create tables that transform gracefully.
- Ensure that pages featuring new technologies transform gracefully.
- Ensure user control of time-sensitive content changes.
- Ensure direct accessibility of embedded user interfaces.
- Design for device-independence.
- Use W3C technologies and guidelines.
- Provide context and orientation information.
- Ensure that documents are clear and simple.
For full details see the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines published by the W3C.