About this site

This site has been devised to showcase not only our design but also our build skills, and its content is accessible to the widest range of operating systems, browsers and visitors, regardless of disability or impairment.

Probably the most well known standard is W3C, the one set by the World Wide Web Consortium, and this site conforms to all their priority one and two guidelines. However, the Disability Discrimination Act also sets rules around accessibility and cannot (and should not) be ignored.

The W3C standards are available online . You'll see a few useful links in the right-hand column of this page including one that will let you check the accessibility of any site, starting with this one.

If you have difficulty accessing any of the information on this site please contact us and we will do all we can to rectify the problem.

Technical

The (x)html is valid and conforms to W3C Standards (XHTML 1.0 Transitional).

This site is designed using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and is accessible with style sheets turned off or in browsers not capable of reading style sheets. The CSS is valid (CSS level 2.1) and conforms to W3C Standards.

The site is accessible (a text only version can be accessed by disabling the stylesheet), cross-browser compatible and has been tested on IE5.5, IE6, IE7, IE8, Firefox, Safari and Google Chrome.

Text sizes are relative and can be resized with your browser controls, CTRL + to increase the text size, CTRL - to decrease the text size or CTRL 0 to restore the text size.

All pages on this site use structured semantic markup. H1 tags are used for main titles, H2, H3 and H4 tags for subtitles.

All descriptive images have alt tags, an alternative text description to convey the essential meaning of the image. Where images are purely decorative they are displayed using CSS so they can be ignored by text readers.