Accessibility
This site was designed to meet the guidelines of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0. These guidelines explain how to make Web content accessible to people with disabilities. There are 14 guidelines, meant to be general principles of accessible design. Theses guidlines are:

1. Provide equivalent alternatives to auditory and visual content.
2. Don't rely on color alone.
3. Use markup and style sheets and do so properly.
4. Clarify natural language usage.
5. Create tables that transform gracefully.
6. Ensure that pages featuring new technologies transform gracefully.
7. Ensure user control of time-sensitive content changes.
8. Ensure direct accessibility of embedded user interfaces.
9. Design for device-independence.
10. Use interim solutions.
11. Use W3C technologies and guidelines.
12. Provide context and orientation information.
13. Provide clear navigation mechanisms.
14. Ensure that documents are clear and simple.

In December 2007, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 was released as a working draft. Revisions to these guidelines are still ongoing. While many of the guidelines are the same, the guidlelines are more testable. WCAG 2.0 applies more broadly to different web technologies and is designed to apply as technologies develop in the future.

While websites that conform to WCAG 1.0 should not require significant changes in order to conform to WCAG 2.0, minor changes may be required. As soon as these updated guidelines have been finalized, any necesary modification to this web site will be made in a timely manner.

Last Updated: 11/3/2009 4:20:10 PM