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The TORC website has been designed so that all the information and content is accessible to all web browsers and internet devices. This is achieved through adhering to current web standards for mark-up and web technologies. Conforming to web standards means that the site may not look perfect when viewed through older, non-standards compliant browsers, such as Internet Explorer 4 and Netscape 4, but it does ensure that the content and information is fully accessible.
The pages on the TORC site have been checked as valid XHTML 1.0 and CSS. For further information visit the World Wide Web Consortium's Validation Service page or follow the links at the foot of the page.
To ensure access to all users, including those with disabilities, the site also follows the W3C (www.w3c.org) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 - outlined at www.w3c.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/. Content on this site should achieve the minimum of Double-A Level conformance to these guidelines. If you have problems accessing any resources on the TORC website please inform TORC.
WaSP (www.webstandards.org) maintain a list of currently available standards-compliant web browsers. Most of these are free and are easily obtainable. If you would like to try using a browser that fully implements all the latest web standards and developments then you could try one of the links below.
- IE6 for Windows delivers fine support for HTML 4, CSS-1, and other important W3C standards. Don't worry if you don't know what that means; the people who build your websites know. The browser is available free of charge.
- IE5 Macintosh Edition, released in March 2000, provides superb support for key web standards (CSS, HTML, XHTML, PNG, ECMA-262, DOM1HTML) and an elegant user experience. IE5.1, released December 2001, improves on its predecessor. The browser is available free of charge.
- Netscape 6.2 complies with important Web standards, including full support for XML and the DOM. These technologies can help Web builders create powerful sites that work well. The browser is available free of charge. Netscape 6.2 fixes bugs in earlier releases, and adds support for Mac OSX. It is based on the standards-compliant Gecko engine and open-source Mozilla, which supports AIX, Linux, Win32, Mac OS, OpenVMS, HPUX, and FreeBSD, and which may be the most compliant of all current browsers.
- Opera 6 for Windows, released 13 November 2001, supports many key web standards and a variety of computing platforms. Its lead designer was the chief author of the CSS-1 standard. The browser, which works well even on older PCs with limited power, is available free of charge. (A pay version is also available.) Opera supports Windows, Linux (beta, but works very well), Mac OS (beta, but works very well), and will soon support the OS/2, EPOC, and BeOS platforms.
- Konqueror is a full-featured, modern graphical browser for Unix/Linux, with excellent support for web standards including HTML 4, CSS-1, ECMAScript, and the DOM Level 1, and partial support for XML and CSS-2. The current version is not at the same level of compliance, however, as Mozilla, IE, and Opera, and some sites may display incorrectly in Konqueror as a result.
- The IBM Web Browser is based on Netscape's open source Mozilla project (see above), and offers excellent standards support for anyone using IBM's OS2/Warp and Workspace On-Demand.
This site will look best in a browser that supports web standards, but is accessible to any browser or Internet device.
TORC is a service of the Archaeology Training Forum, operated by the Council for British Archaeology and supported by English Heritage.
Today's date: 5/7/2008
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