• People with visual impairments who use text-to-speech converters (programs which convert webpages directly to text)
• People with hearing impairments who may need phonetic equivalents for audio materials
• People with impaired mobility who have difficulty using a conventional mouse or keyboard.
  

Alt Tags

Images are provided with text equivalents which describe the content of the image. Images without visual content (e.g., an image which supports page layout) are provided with zero-length text equivalents.

Links

This website provides links to other websites which maintain their own accessibility guidelines.

Compliance Statement

Portions of this web site were developed under Federally funded programs. The site has been designed to comply with Federal standards for web site accessibility as defined in Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.

The pages on this site have been tested for compliance against guidelines adopted by the World Wide Web Consortium (also known as the W3C). The site complies with all Priority 1 checkpoints as defined in the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 adopted 5 May 1999. Cascading Style Sheets conform to W3C Specifications for Cascading Style Sheets. The site is also fully accessible without the application of its style sheets.

The site conforms to requirements for Bobby Approval per the guidelines of the Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST).

Accessibility Resources
Federal Access Board - Accessibility Guidelines and Standards [www.access-board.gov/indexes/accessindex.htm]
World Wide Web Consortium - Accessibility Initiative [www.w3.org/wai/]
National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research [www.ed.gov/offices/OSERS/NIDRR/]
Information on Alternative Web Browsers [www.w3.org/WAI/References/Browsing]

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