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Accessibility Statement

Accessibility Statement

NCHPAD and NCA are committed to using technology to improve access for people with disabilities. The Discover Leisure Education website incorporates the following features to provide access for people using this site with assistive technology like screen readers, Braille keyboards and other types of equipment. We welcome your comments on the usability of this web site. If you have any questions or comments, feel free to email the webmaster at webmaster@nchpad.org.

Visual Design

The pages within Discover Leisure Education use simple HTML tables for layout in order to display consistently across browsers and platforms. Cascading style sheets are used for all other visual effects. If your browser or browsing device does not support style sheets at all, the content of each page should still be readable.

Text Size

This site uses only relative font sizes, compatible with the user-specified “text size” option in visual browsers. You can also use the “Text size” buttons featured on every page of this site to make the text bigger or smaller.

Access Keys

Most browsers support jumping to specific links by typing keys defined on the web site. On Windows, you can press ALT + an access key; on Macintosh, you can press Control + an access key. All pages on this site define the following access keys:

    • Access key 1 - Home page
    • Access key 2 - Skip to content
    • Access key 3 - Skip to navigation
    • Access key 4 – Search
    • Access key 0 - Accessibility statement

Navigation Aids

All pages have rel=home, contents, and help links to aid navigation in text-only browsers. Netscape 6 and Mozilla users can also take advantage of this feature by selecting the View menu, Show/Hide, Site Navigation Bar, Show Only As Needed (or Show Always).

Links

Many links have title attributes which describe the link in greater detail, unless the text of the link already fully describes the target. Links are written to make sense out of context.

Images, Captions & Descriptions

All content images used in this site include descriptive ALT attributes. Purely decorative graphics include null ALT attributes. Most photos have captions immediately following the image. In addition to captions, descriptions of the photo contents are presented as ALT Text.

Videos & Captioning

Streaming video clips are presented throughout Discover Leisure Education Synchronized captions have been included with all videos so that all individuals can enjoy them.

To enable/disable captioning in RealPlayer 8 and earlier: select Preferences by right-clicking in the video display window. Select the Content tab. Choose Settings from the Accessibility section at the bottom. Check (or uncheck to disable) the "Use accessibility features when available" checkbox. Select OK, then OK again in the Preferences window. You will need to restart the video for your changes to take effect.

For RealOne: Start the RealOne player. Select "Preferences" from the Tools menu at the top. Click on "Content" in the left pane, and check the box that says "Use supplemental text captioning when available."

Standards Compliance

All pages on this site comply with the vast majority of priority 1, 2, and 3 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. All pages on this site should validate as HTML 4.01 Transitional. All pages on this site use structured markup. H1 tags are used for main titles, H2 tags for subtitles. For example, on this page, JAWS users can skip to the next section within the accessibility statement by pressing ALT+INSERT+2.

Accessibility References

  • W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 , which explains the reasons behind each guideline.
  • W3C accessibility techniques , which explains how to implement each guideline.
  • W3C accessibility checklist , a busy developer’s guide to accessibility.
  • Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act

Accessibility Services

  • Cynthia Says, a free service to analyze web pages for compliance to accessibility guidelines. A full-featured commercial version is also available.
  • HTML Validator, a free service for checking that web pages conform to published HTML standards.
  • Web Page Backward Compatibility Viewer , a tool for viewing your web pages without a variety of modern browser features.
  • Lynx Viewer, a free service for viewing what your web pages would look like in Lynx.
  • Watchfire Web XACT (formerly known as Bobby). http://webxact.watchfire.com/

Related resources

  • W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI/
  • WebAIM , a non-profit organization dedicated to improving accessibility to online learning materials. http://www.webaim.org/
  • Designing More Usable Web Sites , a large list of additional resources. http://trace.wisc.edu/world/web/
  • Dive Into Accessibility: 30 Days to a More Accessible Web Site http://www.diveintoaccessibility.org/
About This Site Site Map Accessibility Statement NCA NCHPAD
This online resource has been created through a collaborative project of the National Center on Health, Physical Activity and Disability (NCHPAD) with content and design development by the National Center on Accessibility (NCA) and the Indiana University School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation. This project is funded through Grant/Cooperative Agreement Number U59/CCU522742-02 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of CDC.

All rights reserved. No part of this guide may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

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