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Subject http://www.keighleylibdems.org.uk/rss/newsmenu.php
Date Fri Jul 30 05:29:22 2010
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<WCAG-AA/Lowstrong> Fri, July 30 2010 </strong>
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<td> This page provides a portal to lots of news sources.  Of course there's a link to
<WCAG-AAA/Lowa class="dec" href="../gen_code/news.php" > our own news </a>
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<td class="minus1" > NB Except for our own news, these feeds are all under the control of their publishers. Keighley Liberal Democrats accept no responsibility for their content. </td>
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<p class="indent_s" > We aim at the highest possible accessibility standards - WCAG 1.0, AAA and WCAG 2.0, level 3 (with valid HTML).  Unfortunately, that's hard to prove.  The checker linked above, for instance, fails almost every page on the site, but when I follow up the faults, so far, they have all turned out to be warnings about issues that have been taken into account.  Please feel free to check for yourself, then if you find an exception, please
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<WCAG-AA/Lowstrong> The REAL alternative </strong>
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<strong> "The Liberal Democrats exist to build and safeguard a free, fair and open society, in which we seek to balance the fundamental values of liberty, equality and community and in which no-one shall be enslaved by poverty, ignorance or conformity." </strong>
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<em> Preamble to the Liberal Democrat Federal Constitution, first sentence. </em>
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