Accessibility

Accessibility Standards

Technical Standards for Web-based Intranet and Internet Information and Applications (36 C.F.R. § 1194.22) as promulgated by the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board, pursuant to section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C. § 794d).
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0, as promulgated by the World Wide Web Consortium, conformance level Triple-A (excluding checkpoints 3.3, 3.4, 9.4, 9.5, 10.2, 10.4, 11.1, 11.3, 13.7, 14.1, and 14.2).
Dublin Core meta standard (version 1.1, revised), as promulgated by the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
hCard Microformat Standard as developed by Tantek Çelik and Brian Suda.
PICS standard, as promulgated by the Word Wide Web Consortium and implemented by SafeSurf and the Internet Content Rating Association.
Robot meta-tag standard, as promulgated by the Spidering BOF Group at the 1996 Distributed Indexing/Searching Workshop of the World Wide Web Consortium.
Unicode 5.1.0 standard, as promulgated by the Unicode Consortium.
XHTML 1.0 standard, as promulgated by the Word Wide Web Consortium.

Browsealoud is a screen reader developed for people who may find it difficult to read text online or for those who may have literacy problems and/or learning disabilities such as dyslexia. It is also a beneficial tool for those for whom English is a second language and may have trouble reading. Browsealoud allows you to "listen" to the contents of the web page you are viewing. » Download the latest version of Browsealoud.

QuickTime can be used to view video and listen to audio. Players are available for several operating systems and platforms. » Download the latest version of QuickTime Media Player.

RealPlayer can be used to view video and listen to audio. Players are available for several operating systems and platforms. » Download the latest version of RealPlayer.

VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. » Download the latest version of VLC Media Player.

Windows Media Player plays video and audio files on Windows operating systems. » Download the latest version of Windows Media Player

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