Website Accessibility

The Museum on the Mound website has been designed using international accessibility guidelines in order to ensure that it is accessible to as wide an audience as possible. If despite these measures you still find it difficult to navigate our site for any reason, please contact us. We’ll do whatever we can to help.

Standards Compliance

The entire MoM website complies with priority 1 guidelines of the W3 Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and the Disability Discrimination Act. In addition the Museum on the Mound website validates as XHTML 1.1 and valid CSS level 2.

Every effort has been made to ensure that the above statements are true and correct at the time of posting. If you find otherwise please contact us.

Access Keys & Tab Indexes

This website has been configured using access keys (see below) and tab indexes which allow it to be navigated more easily by keyboard, for those that cannot or prefer not to use a pointing device. Most modern browsers support access keys; to use them on Windows press ALT + the access key and then hit ENTER, and on Macintosh press CTRL + the access key. You’ll find a list of the access keys configured on this site below:

Links & Images

For the benefit of those using text browsers or screen readers, images throughout the site have been configured with alternative text which describe them in greater detail. All links which lead outside of the MoM website have been designated with a special icon () and accompanying alternative text.

Where javascript has been used in the website it has been done so according to "unobtrusive javascript" guidelines, and is is not required to navigate or utilise a feature of the site.