Accessibility

Introduction

National Grid Education has made every effort to ensure this site is accessible to everyone, including those using screen readers or other non-browser software.

We have aimed to adhere to the following, international guidelines:

  • XHTML 1.0 Transitional markup standard
  • CSS 2.0
  • WCAG 2.0 AA accessibility standard

We have used the official W3 validators and a range of software solutions to ensure our website conforms to these strict, up-to-date standards.

Browsers

The National Grid Education web site has been tested on most of today's leading browsers:

  • Apple Safari 5 for Mac and PC
  • Google Chrome 9
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 and 8
  • Mozilla Firefox 2 and 3
  • Opera 8, 9 and 10

For optimum viewing of the National Grid Education site we recommend a minimum screen resolution of 1024 x 768 and at least 16-bit colour mode.

 

Plug-ins

Adobe Flash Player

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Some parts of this web site use Adobe Flash. If your browser does not display Flash movies you can download Adobe Flash Player free from the Adobe web site.

Adobe Reader

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Many documents are provided in Adobe PDF format, a popular downloadable document format. If you do not have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed, you can download Adobe Reader free from the Adobe web site.