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About the INTERACT Website
Wondering what a cookie is and whether you should allow them? What is the World Wide Web Consortium? Is the INTERACT website accessible? For answers, read on...
What is a Cookie and should I allow them for the INTERACT Website?
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.
Is the INTERACT Website accessible/what makes a website accessible?
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 (eg Microsoft Internet Explorer), text-only browsers (eg Lynx), and specialty browsers (eg IBM Home Page Reader for people with blindness). The INTERACT Website can also be browsed with the latest technologies such as mobile computing systems, mobile phones etc.
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.
Why can I not open PDF files?
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.
