Web standards

The History Data Service is committed to following agreed best standards and good practice in web design and usability. The underlying code of the History Data Service web site achieves compliance with W3C guidelines for XHTML and Cascading Style Sheets, conforms to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, and is SENDA compliant.

The Web Standards Project
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0
XHTML 1.0 The Extensible HyperText Markup Language (Second Edition)
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Special Educational Needs and Disability Act 2001

However, the History Data Service web site is designed to be viewed with more up-to-date web browsers, and as such, we would recommend that the site is best viewed using one of the following:

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 6/7 (Windows)
• Mozilla Firefox 1.5/2 (Windows, Mac OS X)
• Opera 8/9 (Windows, Linux)