Indian Health Service Standards and Guidelines

For Internet and Intranet Services


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Table Of Contents

Goal
Introduction
Purpose
Level of Compliance


Accessibility
Accuracy/Timeliness/Currency
Acronym Use
Audio Clips
Browsers
Cookies
Copyright
Design Format
Development Server
Directory Structure
Disclaimers
Electronic Reading Room
E-Mail Addresses
File Format
File Size
Files
Footer
Forms
Frames
GILS
Graphics
Header
Home Page
Home Page Links
HTML
Image Maps
Images
Information Approval and Clearances
Information Collection/Surveys
Information/System Protection
Information Published
Java
JavaScript
Links (Dead)
Links (Live)
META Tags
Navigation
Netiquette
Robots
Search Engines
Security
Tables
Testing
Text Only Alternative
Titles
Under Construction
URL's
Usage Monitoring
Web Site Establishment


 

Home Page Links

Congress and the President have issued requirements/initiatives that affect Home Page links. The Department of Health and Human Services also requires a link to their Internet home page.  These requirements pertain only to the web server's primary home page not to individual home pages that reside on the web server.

Standards

  1. Mandatory links
     
    1. Disclaimers
       
    2. Electronic Reading Room

    3. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
       
    4. Link to parent organization, HHS, by either logo or text link
       
    5. Kids Page link (Required only for Internet sites)
       
  2. Recommended links
     
    1. Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

    2. Individual Home Pages
       
    3. Search

    4. Site Information

    5. What’s New
       

Guidelines

Reference the HHS World Wide Web Applications and the Internet Best Practices and Guidelines, http://www.hhs.gov/progorg/oirm/bestguid.html for additional information.

 

Date Change History
6-2-2000 New:  Introductory text:  HHS requires a link to their Internet home page

New:  Standards:  Mandatory links have been updated and alphabetized 

New: Guidelines:  Links are now alphabetical 

 

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