Making the English Heritage Website Accessible

Accessibility is about 'providing access to all' - whether the user is colour blind, from a different culture, a different country, or of a different technical ability.

We aim to make the English Heritage website accessible to the widest possible audiences and strongly believe in the use of recognised standards. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), in particular, produce and evolve an ever-increasing set of standards to sustain and improve the growth of technology that will acheive a high degree of usability for people with disabilities.

This site adheres to (or uses) the following (mainly W3C) recognised standards:

• Extensible mark-up language (XML)
• Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT)
• Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML)
• Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
• Resource Description Framework (RDF)
• Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
• Dublin Core Metadata

Through the use of these standards, we are creating a site that:
• is faster, more useful, and more accessible for our visitors.
• is easier to maintain for our site editors.
• produces easily digestible/understandable code for external web agents (e.g. search engine spiders).

The English Heritage website is driven by the Amaxus Content Management System, which includes built-in functionality to achieve the highest possible accessibility adherence. For further questions or if you are having difficulty accessing this site please email us at web-team@english-heritage.org.uk.

This site supports the following browsers:
• Internet Explorer 5.5+
• Netscape 6+
• Safari (Mac)
• Camino
• Mozilla 1.01
• Firefox
• Opera