About this Site

About this site

Website Accessibility

Most publicly-accessible pages on this site should to conform to level Single-A of the W3C's "Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0". If you find any pages which do not conform to these guidelines, please inform the webmaster.

It is our intention to provide as wide access as possible to this website. Should you experience any difficulties using the site we would very much like to hear about them, so that we may take steps to rectify them. Please email webmaster@nms.ac.uk with details of the problem, the name and version of the browser you are using and, if possible, details of the operating system and screen settings you are using.

Standards Compliance

National Museums Scotland has endeavoured to ensure that:

  • All web pages on this site comply with all Priority 1 checkpoints of the W3C Web Content
  • Accessibility Guidelines (Level-A conformance)
  • All pages on this site validate as XHTML 1.0 Transitional
  • All stylesheets used validate as CSS2
  • All pages on this site use structured semantic markup, e.g. h1 tags for main page headings, h2 tags for sub-headings, and so on
  • If you find any pages which do not conform to these guidelines, please inform the webmaster.

Browser Compatibility

This site uses cascading style sheets (CSS) for visual layout and presentation. The site is best viewed in a 'standards compliant' web browser with proper stylesheet support, such as Mozilla Firefox, Opera or a recent version of Internet Explorer (5+).

If you are using a browser which does not support style sheets (such as a PDA or text-only browser), or an older browser with poor stylesheet support (such as Netscape 4), the content of each page should still be fully accessible, but will be presented in plain-text format.