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A Guide for Archiving Web Pages
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- What is web archiving- How is web archiving done?
- - Web page best practices
- - Assuring accessibility
- - Using style sheets
- - Using meta tags
- - - Dublin Core metadata
- - Using a CMS
- - Assuring content integrity
- - Using a snapshot tool
- - Using web archiving tools
- - Server maintenance
- - Backing up
- Documentation
Best practices for web page accessibility
Key elements of accessible pages include providing text equivalents for images and other non-text elements, avoiding use of colored text or images as the only way to convey information, identifying each language change in the page using the appropriate XHTML codes, avoiding use of frames on web pages, and making sure the pages can be read even is javascript is disabled.Some resources on accessible web pages
- List of Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
- Web Accessibility Guidelines and Techniques, a list of accessibility standards and guidelines from the World Wide Web Consoritum.
- HTML Writers Guild Web Accessibility Standards, presents twelve required accessibility features of Guild websites.
- WebAIM Section 508 Checklist, a summary of key elements of the US Government standards for accessibility of government web sites.
- Section 508 Standards, US Government standards for accessibility of government web sites.
