Mobile/PDA Guidelines
Please Note: Prior to following these guidelines you need to decide whether your site or content is aimed specifically at people using mobile phones or PDAs. Some of these guidelines are in direct contradiction to other guidelines such as the Whole of Victorian Government Web Standards and the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. You should only use these guidelines if your site or content is aimed specifically at people using mobiles or PDAs.
General Requirements
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Navigation Requirements
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Layout requirements
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Image requirements
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Text requirements
| No. |
Checkpoint |
Source |
| 5.1 |
Pages are kept short |
Priority 1 |
| 5.2 |
Content is frontloaded |
Priority 1 |
| 5.3 |
Distinguishing information has been provided at the beginning of content |
Priority 1 |
| 5.4 |
The important information is presented first |
Priority 1 |
| 5.5 |
Where possible, only information specifically requested by the user is provided |
Priority 1 |
| 5.6 |
Text size is not larger than 0.9em |
DEECD |
| 5.7 |
Text wrapping is allowed |
DEECD |
| 5.8 |
A non-breaking space ( ) is used for text that must not wrap to the next line |
DEECD |
| 5.9 |
Where possible, decimals are used instead of fractions |
Priority 1 |
| 5.10 |
The default link display has not been changed |
Priority 2 |
| 5.11 |
Purple or blue has not been used as text colours (with the exception of the default link display) |
Priority 2 |
| 5.12 |
Primarily the site uses black text on white background |
Priority 2 |
| 5.13 |
Font styling, size and family are not required to understand or interact with the site |
DEECD |
| 5.14 |
strong has been used in preference to em |
DEECD |
| 5.15 |
Underline, strikethrough or overlining have not been used |
DEECD |
| 5.16 |
Blink or marquee have not been used |
Priority 2 |
| 5.17 |
Nested tables have not been used |
DEECD |
| 5.18 |
Where possible, data tables have been avoided |
DEECD |
| 5.19 |
Where possible, externally linked resources (images, CSS, downloads) have been minimised |
DEECD |
| 5.20 |
Downloads are not started unless the user explicitly consents to the download |
Priority 2 |
| 5.21 |
The target of each link is clearly identified |
Priority 2 |
| 5.22 |
If the file is not of the format html, gif or jpg, the format and size of the file is included in the link |
DEECD |
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Colour requirements
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