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From: Williams, William R -FS
Date: Jun 7, 2013 10:40AM

Some comments about the basic mark-up, which is the start for accessibility ...



* The doctype declaration <!DOCTYPE html> = HTML5, but the page is not written in HTML5 markup.

* The file does not validate to W3C standards.

* What? No title tag for this 'page,' which offers a meaningful title?

* You have not set a "charset" parameter to identify character encoding (e.g., utf-8).

* Information contained within the sections Main Navigation and Tag Cloud are not really tabular data, but are laid out using the table element -- best practices would suggest using CSS instead.

* Document structure seems just a bit flawed to me as it regards the heading levels. Why are sections Main Navigation and Tag Cloud marked-up as heading level 2s when, what seems to me, more important information that follows are sectioned within heading level 3s? In fact, using CSS positioning (perhaps to float right) for the Main Navigation and Tag Cloud sections, I might make them h3s and the headings starting with Introduction as h2s.

* Some inconsistencies in markup; e.g., the following paragraph is closed (probably just an oversight): "Individuals living with a disability use assistive technologies such as the following to enable and assist web browsing:"





Bill Williams

Communications Specialist



U.S. Forest Service,

Pacific Southwest Region

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