Coding standards and Double-A conformance

This website is built where possible using code compliant with World Wide Web Consortium www.w3.org/ (W3C) standards for XHTML www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#xhtml and Cascading Style Sheets www.w3.org/Style/. W3C is the governing authority on web development standards and practices.

The site has been tested in the following browsers:

Mozilla Firefox

Google Chrome

Internet Explorer

Opera

Safari

The site will display but with some issues in the following web browsers:

Internet Explorer 6

Therefore it is recommended that older web browsers are upgraded www.browserupgrade.info/how-to-upgrade to the latest version with the relevant security patches wherever possible.

Pages should conform to the Double-A level (and in places Triple-A) of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0. www.w3.org/WAI/intro/wcag.php

The Accessibility Guidelines explain how to make Web content accessible to people with disabilities. Conformance to these Guidelines helps to make the Web more accessible to users with disabilities and benefits all users.

Individual pages are tested using the W3C Validation tool. http://validator.w3.org/

Certain pages do not conform to all the guidelines where third party components have been used.