Support Available

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• #921 The “Support available” provision is critical and the definition of “support” needs to factor in cognitive disabilities open 0 comments · updated 2026-10-16

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Verbatim from guidelines/groups/help-and-feedback/help-available/support-available.md · informative document: informative/guidelines/help-and-feedback/help-available/support-available.md

Support is available during data entry, task completion and search.

:::except-when
- the content does not include one or more of the mentioned processes.
:::

:::example
When the content does not include search, there is no requirement for support to be available for search.
:::