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About This Site

Mission

The mission of this web site is to provide program users, librarians, and the public a wide range of access to NLS publications, program information, and bibliographic data.

Target Audiences

Target Browser

The target for this site is text-based browsers, such as Lynx, frequently used by blind readers.

Target Markup Language

The target markup language for this site is XHTML 1.0 Strict, employing cascading style sheets (CSS-2). The intent is to present pages that use HTML markup to reinforce the logical structure of documents and to affect presentation aspects using style sheets that users can override with their own browser settings.

Go to the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Recommendation for XHTML 1.0

Go to the W3C Recommendation for CSS2

Go to a document explaining how to control colors and fonts in two popular browsers, Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer


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Posted on 2011-01-10