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This site conforms to the Cascading Style Sheet (Level 1 & Level 2) specifications. The Cascading Style Sheets specifications define a style sheet language that allows authors and users to attach style (e.g., fonts, spacing, and aural cues) to structured documents (e.g., HTML documents and XML applications). By separating the presentation style of documents from the content of documents, CSS simplifies Web authoring and site maintenance.

This site conforms to the Level A of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0. The accessibility guidelines explain how to make Web content accessible to people with disabilities. The primary goal of these guidelines is to promote accessibility, but also to make Web content more available to all users, whatever user agent they are using or constraints they may be operating under. Following these guidelines is expected to help people find information on the Web more quickly. Bobby was used to validate that this web site met all Priority 1 checkpoints.

This web site is built using Zope. Zope is a high-performance application server, a web server, and a content management system rolled into one. Zope includes a robust, scalable object database, web services architecture, and powerful programming capabilities. Zope is written in Python.

This site was created by the Information Services Team of the Computing and Information Services Division of Space Telescope Science Institute.

The ADASS 2003 web pages are developped and maintained by Marc Wenger (ADASS XIII LOC team), using heavily the structure developed by the above mentionned team at STScI.