Standards Compliance

This page details our general specification for Websites and Intranets. It satisfies the United Kingdom's e-Government Interoperability Framework and the Disability Discrimination Act 1995, as revised.

MKDoc can be used to create web sites which comply with e-GIF v2.0 however there is not yet support for everything required by e-GMS v3.0 for Web Sites.

Public Functionality

The website shall be accessible via all browsers. Javascript, Java and Microsoft specific extensions shall not be required to access the site content.

The website must have a consistent format, controlled with templates, and shall provide the following:

Documents

All documents shall be valid HTML 4.01 or XHTML 1.0 Transitional or Strict. All documents shall comply with W3C WAI Double-A or better. All documents shall be encoded to Unicode / UTF-8.

Site Structure

Documents