About the Windsor Website
TRYING TO BE A CHURCH WITHOUT WALLS
Privacy
We will not collect personal information about you without your agreement, and we will not spam you or pass your details on to anyone else for spamming either.
The menus on this site send your computer a "cookie" which it will remember until you finish this session of using the web and close your browser. The cookie lists which menus are open, and it is sent back to this site (and only to this site) each time you request a new page from us. This means that we can have the same menus open for you on each page you visit. Some ASP pages may also set cookies to remember similar session information, but that's ASP for you. Disable it in your browser if it annoys you.
The Forum requests that you register if you want to join in the discussion. This is to protect all the forum members. Again we will not spam you or disclose your information (unless the law comes knocking, which doesn't seem that likely).
Printing
There are no special "printable versions" of our pages - the pages you see are also the printable ones. Through the magic of stylesheets (if you're using a "sensible" browser) the menu will not show up in your printout (try "print preview" to see how that looks). There is a special stylesheet for printing which makes all the menu stuff invisible!
Compatibility
Buggy browsers which display styles incorrectly may be confused by the formatting information. We may provide a simpler (but less powerful) version of the style information for such browsers.
The site should display correctly in the following browsers, though any browser which follows web standards should work:
- Firefox or Firebird
- Internet Explorer 5 (or above)
- Konqueror
- Netscape 6 (or above)
- Mozilla
- Opera
- Safari (for the Mac)
- Netscape 4 (upgrade to Netscape 7, or mozilla)
- Internet Explorer 4 (upgrade to IE6 or mozilla)
- Lynx (for text-only users)
- Other MacBrowsers
- Old versions of Opera
Accessibility
The site has been designed not to depend on javascript or visual styles, and pages should be quite usable in a text-based browser, such as Lynx. In such browsers, the menus will appear at the bottom of the page. A link should be provided near the top of each page to give direct access to these menus.
Our aim is that most content will meet the Priority 1 Accessibility Guidelines published by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative. And we're working on a "large print" version of the forum.
The W3C has published an article on Alternative Web Browsing, including technology which may be of particular use to disabled users.
Technical Information
The active menus use no java - they use styles and javascript (and the cookies to remember which menus you want open, as we said earlier). The site will still be usable if your browser ignores styles and rejects cookies - it just won't look so good, or remember from one page to the next how you want the menus to be displayed. If you disable JavaScript, the submenu choices will all be displayed, to ensure that the rest of the site is accessible to you.