Avoid deprecated features of W3C technologies |
WAI / WCAG 1.0 Priority 2 checkpoint 11.2
Issue Description The page contains tags that are deprecated in HTML 4.01. Avoid using them.
How to fix To see the deprecated tags and attributes refer to the official HTML document HTML 4.01 Specification [http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/appendix/changes.html#h-A.3.1.2] . Some of the following tags have been found in the page:

- APPLET
- BASEFONT
- CENTER
- DIR
- FONT
- ISINDEX
- MENU
- S
- STRIKE
- U
- LISTING
- PLAINTEXT
- XMP

Issue Explanation Deprecated tags and attributes are not part of an HTML standard. They have been removed from the standard, by the W3C, because they are redundant with other tags or technology and because they are against the latest development trends of the standards.

For example, the FONT tag is deprecated because it is possible to specify all the font properties using CSS rules (redundancy). In addition a higher level of modularity and a better separation between structure and presentation (trends) is achieved.