Sharing INTERREG experiences
Sharing INTERREG experiences
A cookie is a message given to a web browser by a web server. An INTERACT Cookie is stored by the browser in a text file on your hard drive. The next time you go to the INTERACT Website, your browser will send the cookie to the INTERACT Server, which will use this information to present you with customised web pages.
You can choose whether to allow cookies onto your computer or not. Cookies can be deleted from your hard drive at all times. If you allow a cookie, you will enter the INTERACT Website via the News page rather than the Welcome Page on your second visit and on subsequent visits. You will also notice that News items which have been added since your last visit will be marked with the New icon. These functions are reset when the cookie is deleted.
The INTERACT Programme takes the accessibility of its website very seriously. Our aim is to make it easily accessible to as many people as possible - as easily as possible!
This means that the INTERACT Website is designed to give anyone (from people having the full range of sensory and motor skills to those who have one or more limitations in those areas) using any kind of Web browsing technology access to the information on the website.
The INTERACT Website can be browsed using mainstream graphical browsers (e.g. Microsoft Internet Explorer), text-only browsers (e.g. Lynx), and specialty browsers (e.g. IBM Home Page Reader for people with blindness). The INTERACT Website can also be browsed with emerging technologies such as mobile computing systems or cellular phones and pager displays.
Our website complies as far as possible with the very latest guidelines and highest standards laid down by the World Wide Web Consortium - W3C - (the industry governing body for the Internet). Our site complies fully with the W3C's Priority 1 checkpoints. We also comply as fully as possible with the Priority 2 checkpoints and with many of the more specific Priority 3 checkpoints as well.
This additional feature was kindly offered to the INTERACT Programme Secretariat by the company that programmes the INTERACT Website.
Depending on the source, RSS is described as Really Simple Syndication (most popular), Rich Site Summary or RDF Site summary. RSS is an application of the Extensible Markup Language (XML) and and is a format for syndicating news.
RSS-news items can be read via a newsreader. Newsreaders display information feeds from your chosen websites on your computer, they warn you when a new item is put online and enable you to read the item without actually having to visit the website. Many high profile news and information providers (e.g. BBC, Reuters and Yahoo) and several national newspapers already offer this service.
Well-known readers are Sharpreader, Feedreader, Newzcrawler, RSSreader and Rocketreader. Macintosh-users can use readers such as Newsfire, NetNewswire and PulpFiction. RSS-readers are often available for free and are either installed as a separate computer programme or as an integrated plug-in to your e-mail programme (e.g. Newsgator) or internet browser (e.g. Pluck). Internet browsers Firefox and Safari 2.0 support RSS as well.
To be able to read Portable Document Format (PDF) files, you will have to download the free Adobe Reader and install it on your computer.
Zip files are single files that contain one or more compressed files. Zip files compress data thus saving disk space and download time. To be able to uncompress .Zip files, you will have to install e.g. WinZip on your computer. Windows XP also supports .Zip files.
Since this WinZip is not available for free, the INTERACT Website often allows you to download each document separately as well.