Accessibility Features
Accessibility Features
This Website employs the following Accessibility Features:
All images have text alternatives (ALT attributes), unless they are purely decorative.
Text uses relative font size so it can be enlarged or reduced using the text size options available in visual browsers.
Pages are organized to be fully functional, even with JavaScript turned off.
Pages are designed to maintain good contrast, even without cascading style sheets.
Pages use flexible formats so they can be automatically resized for different window sizes and screen resolutions.
Pages are designed with separate cascading style sheets, so they can be replaced by user-defined style sheets.
Pages validate to a maximum amount, making exceptions only to aid users with older browsers.
Site follows World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and Section 508 guidelines.
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Access Keys In The Site
The AU Accessibility Website can be used without a mouse. There are shortcut keys that will take you to specific sections of a page, for example the main content of a page. Other shortcut keys will take you to commonly used pages like the AU Accessibility Home page or the Site Map. Detailed below is a list of access keys used in this site and a list of instructions for using access keys organized by platform and browser.
| Key | Target |
|---|---|
| A | Accessibility Home |
| C | Campus Accessibility |
| E | Resources |
| F | Accessibility Features |
| H | Housing |
| I | Inclusive U Conference |
| M | Skip To Main Content |
| O | Contact Us |
| R | Health and Recreation |
| S | Site Map |
| U | AU Home |
| W | Accessible Web Templates |
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Using Access Keys
Access Keys were introduced in the HTML 4.0 recommendations, which include the "accesskey" attribute for links. Because there is no standard way of using Access Keys, the following table shows how they are implemented in various web browsers and operating systems.
| Browser | How to Use |
|---|---|
| I.E. 4-6 Netscape 6-7 Mozilla |
ALT+AccessKey, the Enter (or Return) to activate.
For Example: To get to the AU Accessibility Home page, hold down ALT+A and then press Enter. |
| Browser | How to Use |
|---|---|
| I.E. 5.x Netscape 6-7 iCab 2.8 |
Control+AccessKey
For Example; To get to the AU Accessibility Home page, hold down Control+A. NOTE: Some systems may require user to hold down Control+Command+AccessKey. Others may require users to click on the page first. |
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Browser Non-Support
The following browser versions do NOT support Access Keys:
Netscape 4 and Opera for Windows
Internet Explorer 4.x, Mozilla, Netscape 4, and Opera 5 for Macintosh OS 9
Mozilla, OmniWeb 4, and Safari for Macintosh OS X 10
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