Accessibility

We have built this website so it is as accessible as possible for all our users. Using standards compliant code, we are confident this meets guidelines as outlined by the W3C.

This site uses the most modern techniques for website construction. If you are using an older browser you may experience limitations. Why not upgrade to a newer web browser? We recommend the free Firefox browser which you can download for free.

Compliance

We regularly run checks to ensure we:

  • Are protected by international copyright
  • Are not in violation of EU Privacy and Data Protection Regulations
  • Are not in violation of US CAN-SPAM Act

We check sites for compliance with EU and US legislation:

  • EU Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003
  • US CAN-SPAM Act 2003
  • EU Directive 95/46 on the Protection of Individuals with regard to the Processing of Personal Data
  • International trademark and copyright law

Error checking

We regularly run error checking tests to:

  • Find broken links and missing images
  • Detect server configuration issues
  • Check for PHP script errors and warnings

SEO best practice testing

We regularly check every page on our site for compliance with search guidelines from:

  • Google
  • MSN
  • Yahoo
  • Wikipedia

Usability

We check our website regularly for problems that make pages hard to use including:

  • US Federal Usability.gov guidelines
  • W3C usability guidelines
  • Wikipedia usability guidelines

Further regular checks include:

  • Site performance (slow loading pages)
  • Malware (viruses, spyware and other malicious code)
  • Hard to read pages
  • Text too small to read
  • Missing, duplicate, long and short page titles
  • Missing, duplicate, long and short page descriptions
  • Non-indexable content

This site uses XHTML and CSS as the core foundation. Code is properly validated with the W3C validator. Industry standard PHP scripting and MySQL databases are used where required. The advantages of this are:

  • fast loading pages
  • greater accessibility and compatibility
  • search engine friendly
  • W3C standards compliant: http://validator.w3.org/