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Guideline 2.4 Provide mechanisms to help users find content, orient themselves within it, and navigate through it.
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Success Criteria and Techniques for this guideline
2.4 L1 SC1: Structures and relationships within the content can be programmatically determined.
2.4 L2 SC1: Documents that have five or more section headings and are presented as a single delivery unit include a table of contents with links to important sections of the document.
Table of contents
2.4 L2 SC2: There is more than one way to locate the content of each delivery unit, including but not limited to link groups, a site map, site search or other navigation mechanism.
Site maps
Search engine as alternative navigation
2.4 L2 SC3: Blocks of repeated material, such as navigation menus and document headers, are marked up so that they can be bypassed by people who use assistive technology or who navigate via keyboard or keyboard interface.
Repeated material
2.4 L3 SC1: When content is arranged in a sequence that affects its meaning, that sequence can be determined programmatically.
Reading order
2.4 L3 SC2: When a page or other delivery unit is navigated sequentially, elements receive focus in an order that follows relationships and sequences in the content.
Tab order
2.4 L3 SC3: Images have structure that users can access.
Structured images
2.4 L3 SC4: Delivery units have descriptive titles
Page titles
2.4 L3 SC5: Text is divided into paragraphs.
2.4 L3 SC6: Documents are divided into hierarchical sections and subsections that have descriptive titles.
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