Site Guide

The Centre

• Launch event
• Contact/visit us
• Collaborate with us/volunteer
• RCVS ChangeUp

Facilities & Equipment

• Computers
• Meeting/training rooms
• Fundraising (including FunderFinder software)
• Community library
• Book the computers/rooms

Services

• Design & Print
• Richmond On-Line Learning (ROLL)

This Site

• Jargon Buster
• Accessibility Policy
• Privacy policy
• Terms and conditions
• Homepage

Site Guide

In this page: about the site | web standards & accessibility (including access keys) | problems with Javascript | cookies | Pop ups

About the site

This website promotes our new ICT services and facilities and was developed as part of a consultation process with our membership. It reflects their needs to have information clearly signposted and in a single location.

Web Standards & Accessibility

This site is designed to be used by as many visitors as possible, some of whom will be using different types of 'assistive technology' to open and read web pages for them. In order for these technologies to work, the code that the site is written in and the way the site is structured needs to be prepared to special guidelines.

The following six access keys are used throughout this site:

• Access key 0 - Accessibility Policy
• Access key 1 - Home page
• Access key 2 - Text only
• Access key 3 - Skip to content
• Access key 4 - Skip to menu
• Access key 5 - Skip to search

The Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) code used to construct the web pages and the style to control the design and layout of the page has been produced to W3C recommendations and has been tested through online validators. All the pages in the site have been submitted to this process and have all passed. Each page has an icon to prove that it is a valid page. You can click on the icons on each page to test this yourself.

• What is this icon?
  The code for the structure of the web site has been validated by the online W3C validation service. Visit http://validator.w3.org address to validate your code.
  
  
• What is this icon?
  The style sheet that controls the look and feel of the web site has been validated by the online WAI validation service . Visit http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/ to validate your CSS style sheet.
  
  
• What is this icon? The Internet Content Rating Association (ICRA) is an international, non-profit organization of internet leaders working to develop a safer internet. ICRA believes that self-regulation leads to the best balance between the free flow of digital content and protecting children from potentially harmful material. Users, especially parents of young children, can then use filtering software to allow or disallow access to web sites based on the information declared in the label. Visit the ICRA web site to learn more

Problems with javascript

Javascript is a programming language, often used by web developers and designers to make changes to the look of the web page. Javascript uses this language and programming instructions to tell your web browser how to display your web pages. However javascript programming can conflict with assistive technologies and can more sinisterly be used to send information about you from your computer.

For this reason many people choose to turn the option to use javascript to off in their internet settings. If you have seen a message about javascript being disabled, then it means that you have javascript turned off on your browser. The javascript on this site is minimal and is used on to provide the time and date. If you want to turn javascript 'on' , it can be done in the options from the tools or edit menu on your web browser.

Cookie Basics

Here is the wikipedia definition of a cookie: A cookie is a piece of text that a Web server can store on a user's hard disk . Cookies allow a Web site to store information on a user's machine and later retrieve it. The pieces of information are stored as name-value pairs.

For example, a Web site might generate a unique ID number for each visitor and store the ID number on each user's machine using a cookie file.

If you use Microsoft's Internet Explorer to browse the Web, you can see all of the cookies that are stored on your machine. The most common place for them to reside is in a directory called c:\windows\cookies. When I look in that directory on my machine, I find 165 files. Each file is a text file that contains name-value pairs, and there is one file for each Web site that has placed cookies on my machine.

Pop ups

This is the wikipedia definition for online pop-ups. Pop-up ads or popups are a form of online advertising on the World Wide Web intended to increase web traffic or capture email addresses. It works when certain web sites open a new web browser window to display advertisements. The pop-up window containing an advertisement is usually generated by javascript, but can be generated by other means as well.

When people have a pop up, objects such as viruses may form

Problems with our site?

If you cannot access this site or find it difficult to use , please e-mail our webmaster to discuss how the site can be improved.

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