Accessibility
A great deal of effort has gone into building our website using hand crafted, standards compliant code so as to display in as many likely web browsers and interfaces as possible. We feel that it is imperative to do this so that your experience of our site is as painfree, intuitive and above all, accessible as possible.
There is however, a significant drawback with building a site that complies with web standards so that it is available across multiple browsers and operating systems, and that drawback is that not all browsers are created equal.
As part of the ongoing development and creation of this site, we have endeavoured to make sure that the majority of browsers in use today that we have access to, will at least provide as much as possible, a faithful reproduction of our site design intent, and that those browsers that are incapable of correctly interpreting standards compliant web pages will at least degrade gracefully, so that our content is still readable.
Recommendations
We would very much prefer you to visit us using a modern browser with good support for web standards, so that you can experience our pages as we have designed them. Those of you who are reading this using Internet Explorer 6 or below are seeing a slightly substandard rendition of our pages.
For Internet Explorer users, we would strongly recommend upgrading to Mozilla Firefox, the
cross-platform, free, open-source browser that is Taking Back The Web
.
Another very capable web browser with excellent standards support is Opera which is currently at version 9 and is now, although still closed source, free to download and use across multiple platforms.
Compatibility
We have tested the following browsers when developing this site. As new platforms and browsers become available to us, we will endeavour to continue to remain standards compliant and have those tested browsers work to the best of our abilities.
Windows
| Browser | Comments |
|---|---|
| Firefox 1.5+ | Renders exactly as intended |
| Internet Explorer 6.0SP1 | We have had to try very hard to work around the lack of IE6 standards support and in some cases, we have been unable to provide a 100% ideal solution, therefore there are some portions of our site that don't completely reflect our design intent, although our pages do remain completely usable. |
| Internet Explorer 7.0 | It's great to see Microsoft have tried to make some improvements in this browser over it's predecessor, unfortunately basic standards compliance is still lacking in places. Fortunately, the fixes we've used to get IE6 to work, have also helped us to provide a fairly accurate representation of our pages in IE7. |
| Opera 7.5+ | Renders exactly as intended |
| Safari 3 | Renders exactly as intended |
Linux
| Browser | Comments |
|---|---|
| Firefox 1.5+ | Renders exactly as intended |
| Konqueror 3.5.1 | Renders exactly as intended |
| Netscape 7.2 | Renders exactly as intended |
Mac
| Browser | Comments |
|---|---|
| Firefox 1.5+ | No problems expected |
| Safari | Unfortunately, we don't have any access to Mac hardware but we expect Safari on Mac will render exactly as intended based on testing of the Safari 3 Beta version released for Windows |