Government websites/web documents/pages/forms should be validated for compliance against the following published standards: HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0 and XML 1.0.

• Web pages should be tested for compliance with validation tools such as W3C Markup Validation Service.
• Government websites pages must include an indicative document title in the title tag.
• Web pages titles structure must be consistent.
  Example:

  < title >About the Ministry | Ministry of Tourism< /title >
  < title >Touristic Destinations | Ministry of Tourism< /title >
• Section headings (H1 - H6) must be used to create structured documents and break up long stretches of text.
• Structural grouping tags may be used to divide large blocks of information into more manageable groups where appropriate.
  Example:

  FIELDSET for grouping form controls
  OPTGROUP to group options in selection lists
  THEAD, TBODY, TFOOT, and COLGROUP to group table rows and columns
• List tags (UL and OL) should be used to create lists.
• The main natural language of the document should be indicated in the “html” tag.
  Example:

  < HTML lang="ar" >...rest of an HTML document written in Arabic...< /HTML >
• If content in different languages is used on one page, it must be clearly identified by using the "lang" attribute.
  Example:

  Text in English < SPAN lang="fr" >texte en française< /SPAN >...
• The proper character set encoding of the page should be specified in the meta tags.
  Example:

  UTF-8 would be used to support Arabic and other Unicode characters:
  
  

  <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=UTF-8">

• Use of framesets (FRAMESET and FRAME tags) must be avoided.
• IFRAME elements may be used where needed, especially for embedding content from an external website or source.