We have endeavoured to make this site usable and accessible. We would like all visitors to be able find the information they are looking for quickly and easily.
If you find a problem in using this site, please tell us on helpdesk@techdis.ac.uk .
When using this site, you will find a number of features that will help you to find the information you are looking for:
Finding your place in the site - The navigation list on the left of all pages shows each section of the site. The section heading is repeated at the top of each page. If a section has more than one page you will find links to a section's pages underneath the title.
Returning to the home page - When you want to return to the home page, you can click on the Home Link (at the top of the navigation on every page).
Finding extra hints - Each option in the navigation list on the left has a hint, to explain the content found in that section or page. To see the hint, move your mouse over the option and wait for a couple of seconds. The hint will appear.
Increasing the size of the text - If you prefer the font size on the JISC TechDis pages to be larger or smaller, you can control this using your browser settings. Most browsers allow you to change the size of the font displayed on the screen either permanently or temporarily. How you increase the font depends upon what browser you are using. Examples of how to increase or decrease fonts in several popular browsers follows:
Provides 5 font sizes (largest, larger, medium, smaller, and smallest). Medium is the default size.
You change font size by:
Or:
The font size you select will remain in effect until you select a different size.
You increase or decrease the displayed font size by:
If you have a wheel on your mouse you can also increase and decrease the size of the text by:
Allows users to increase or decrease font size with shortcut keys.
To increase the displayed font size:
To decrease the displayed font size:
Your selected font size will remain in effect until you close Netscape.
Visit your browser's help feature for additional information on this and other browser related topics.
Making a site accessible to everyone who wants to use it is important, and we have tried to ensure that our site is completely accessible to all.
All pages on this site support
XHTML 1.0 Strict [ Extensible HyperText Markup Language version 1.0 strict DTD]. This is indicated inside the <!doctype> tags on all pages:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> .
The pages has been tested against the standards for Strict HTML given by World Wide Web Consortium [www.w3c.org] as indicated by the following icon:

All pages on this site features CSS [Cascading Style Sheets]. Some browsers do not support all features in CSS and as a consequence you might experience irregularities in the design.
The most common browsers who are known to
cause trouble are:
The pages has been tested against the standards given by World Wide Web Consortium [www.w3c.org] as indicated by the icon shown on each page:

Netscape Navigator/Communicator 4.x users are
deliberately excluded from some features due to the poor support for Cascading Style Sheets. Netscape has released a new version (6.01), which supports CSS.
This site has been
tested against:
This site has been evaluated on the basis of Priority 1 and 2 items in the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines as indicated by the icon shown on each page:

Pages bearing this logo indicate a claim of conformance by the page author or content provider to conformance level Double-A of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0, including all Priority 1 and Priority 2 checkpoints defined in the Guidelines. The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 explain how to make Web content accessible to people with disabilities. Conformance to these Guidelines will help make the Web more accessible to users with disabilities and will benefit all users.