Rule n° 143 - The size of the internal files available for downloading is indicated.

Goal

• Provide advance notice to the users on the quantity of data that will be downloaded, as a
• Preventive measure.
• Allow users to wait to download the file over a low-speed or mobile connection.
• Improve the accessibility of content for people with disabilities.

Implementation

At the very least, provide a help page indicating the average or maximum size for all of the files available.

Better, indicate the size for each file download link.

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Control

For each download link, check that it is possible to know the size:

• By generic information given in a help page;
• By information next to the link: paragraph orli listing element where it is included, title of the preceding section, header cell of the table associated with the relevant table;
• By the title attribute of the link containing and completing its caption;
• Or by information given in the link wording.

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