• New Zealand Government Web Standards 2.0

• New Zealand Government Web Standards 1.0
  • » 1. Images
  • » 2. Colour
  • » 3. Site Markup
  • » 4. Special Purpose Documents
  • » 5. Writing Content
    • 5.1 Identify changes in natural language of document text
    • 5.2 Identify the primary natural language of a document
    • 5.3 Expansion of abbreviations and acronyms in a document
    • 5.4 Substituting umlauted vowels for macronised vowels
    • 5.5 Height and width attributes are specified in the IMG element
    • 5.6 Underlining is not used for any items making up text or headings
    • 5.7 Provide metadata to pages and sites
    • Recommendation 5.1.1 Use the clearest and simplest language appropriate for the site content
    • Recommendation 5.1.2 Supplement text with graphic or auditory presentations
    • Recommendation 5.1.3 The alt text ends with a full point and a space
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5.4 Substituting umlauted vowels for macronised vowels

The Standard

5.4 Authors do not use altered fonts that substitute umlauted vowels for macronised vowels.

Rationale for this standard

Unicode is a standard that allows characters from a wide variety of languages to be encoded electronically, including the Māori macronised vowels. Unicode is now more widely supported by operating systems, fonts and browsers than was previously the case. Its use is recommended. Using altered fonts cannot guarantee this same level of support.