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| This site has been designed to be accessible for people with a variety of needs. We have attempted to make accommodations for those with physical challenges such as limited dexterity as well as visual and auditory impairments. |
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| We hope you find this site easy to use. If you would like to share your feedback with us, please visit the Contact Us section of the site, where you will find an online feedback form as well as telephone and mailing address information. |
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| All of the website's navigational elements are keyboard-accessible. This exposes the website's content to those who might have difficulty navigating with a traditional mouse. To navigate using the keyboard, press the "Tab" key to cycle through the navigation links; then, press the "Enter" key to activate the desired navigational element. |
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| Several design techniques have been integrated into this website to assist people who have visual impairments. Some techniques include the use of highly contrasting colors for text (e.g., black text on a white background), and the use of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to format the size of text. Most major internet browsing software (e.g., Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator), allows site-defined CSS to be overridden with user-defined CSS. This enables a visually impaired user to employ their own style sheet to increase the font size of all the text on the site. See your browser's documentation for instructions regarding this technique. An additional consideration for visually impaired users is the use of text-based rather than image-based navigational links. This allows the text size of the navigational links to be increased (using the CSS technique described above) for improved readability. Finally, all images on the site have corresponding "Alt" tags with text to describe the contents of the images. This makes an image’s content accessible to those using assistive technology such as a screen reader. |
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| Music, sound effects, and other elements of audio are used sparingly on this website. |
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| The following organizations provide specialized information regarding accessibility. |
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The Alliance for Technology Access (ATA)
ATA is a network of community-based Resource Centers, Developers and Vendors, Affiliates, and Associates dedicated to providing information and support services to children and adults with disabilities, and increasing their use of standard, assistive, and information technologies.
http://www.ataccess.org |
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The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
WAI, in coordination with organizations around the world, pursues accessibility of the Web through five primary areas of work: technology, guidelines, tools, education and outreach, and research and development.
http://www.w3.org/WAI/ |
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The National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM)
NCAM is a research and development facility dedicated to the issues of media and information technology for people with disabilities in their homes, schools, workplaces, and communities.
http://ncam.wgbh.org/aboutncam.html |
