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2.4.5  Multiple Ways (AA)

This guideline is to ensure that websites provide more than one way to locate content within a set of web pages so that people can locate content in a way that best meets their needs.

Exceptions

Where the web page is the result of, or a step in, a process. Example: a search engine provides search results based on user input. There is no other way to find the search results except by performing the search.

How to test

1. Open the web page to be tested.
2. Look for multiple ways of finding content on the site. Any two of the following are sufficient:

• • List of links to related pages on the site
  • Table of contents linking a document’s various sections
  • Link to a site map that itself links to all sections of the site
  • Site search function
  • List of links to all the other pages on the site (useful only on very small websites)
  • Link to the home page which has links to all of the pages on the site (useful only on very small websites)

Potential access issues

• Only one mechanism for finding content is provided.

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