Complementary guidelines

In addition to the mandatory rules detailed in the previous sections of this notice, taking into account the complementary guidelines listed below has a beneficial impact on people with disabilities.

Therefore, we strongly recommend that you apply them.

• Limit the length of a line to 80 characters
• Provide sign language interpretation for each audio content
• Provide a way to disable all the animations, including the transition effects

• Associate text with each ambiguous symbol
• Do not justify the text
• Explain acronyms
• Group similar form fields together and give them a heading
• Indicate the format and size of each document that can be downloaded
• Indicate the language of each document available for download written in a foreign language
• Keep accents on capital letters (for French, Spanish and any language containing accented characters)
• Make the current position visually different in each navigation system
• Plan sufficiently large and spaced hotspots
• Provide a breadcrumb
• Provide a confirmation message
• Provide a heading for each data table
• Provide a submit button at the end of each form
• Provide a summary prior to final submission of multi-step forms
• Provide a way of returning to the previous steps on forms with multiple steps
• Provide an explicit link text for each link and each button
• Provide skip links

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