EAC

Definitions, Acronyms, and Abbreviations

WCAG - Web Content Accessibility Guidelines

XHTML - Extensible Hypertext Mark-up Language

CSS - Cascading Style Sheet

OS X - Apple Macintosh Operating System

W3C - World Wide Web Consortium

Win - Microsoft Windows

General

The layout of all pages is controlled using CSS and tables are not used for layout. Tables will however be used where appropriate for the display of tabular data.

Structure and presentation will be kept separate to ensure clean and semantic mark-up.

Standards Compliance

The EAC website will be standards compliant in accordance with the W3C with respect to the following:

• XHTML 1.1 (Transitional)
• CSS 2
• WCAG level A

WCAG

The EAC website will conform to the requirements of the 1.0 Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Priority 1 (Level A). The WCAG guidelines specify the best technical approach to accessibility challenges with specific regards to the implementation of:

• XHTML
• CSS
• Metadata

Operating Systems

The EAC website will support the following operating systems:

• Microsoft Windows
• Apple Macintosh

Browser Compatibility

The EAC website will be compatible in all of the following modern browsers:

• Firefox 3.x (Win)
• Internet Explorer 6 (Functional) (Win)
• Internet Explorer 7(Win)
• Internet Explorer 8(Win)
• Chrome 4.x (Win)
• Safari 4.x (Win)
• Firefox 3.x (OS X)
• Safari 3.x (OS X)
• Safari 4.x (OS X)

Screen Resolution

The EAC website will be tested at resolutions ranging from 800 x 600px to 1680 x 1050px.