Standards & accessibility

Standards are important to ensure that webpages are cross browser compatible, accessible and retrievable by search engines.

There are standards for the HSE website relating to metadata, accessibility, PDFs and cross government interoperability.

• More about the standards used in XHTML pages.
• More about the standards used in PDF documents.
• File naming standards.
• About the HSE standard desktop.
• Advertising standards are set by the Interactive Advertising Bureau.