About accessibility

This page describes how this Web site (http://equal-e.eevertti.net/) has been made more accessible to people with disabilities and cab be use with a wide range of devices for the Web.

People with visual impairments or disabilities need certain accommodations to use Web sites easily and effectively. For example, some use a screen reader device, which converts the text in a Web page to speech which blind people can hear. Or, some may view the site at larger font sizes. The following features of this Web site support their needs:

1. Breadcrumb navigation shows each page's location relative to the entire UCSF site structure, which enables people using linear delivery user agents such as screen readers to: (a) form a mental picture of the site structure and (b) easily jump higher in the same path. A user agent is "any software that retrieves and renders Web content for users. This may include Web browsers, media players, plug-ins, and other programs -- including assistive technologies -- that help in retrieving and rendering Web content." (See definition source for user agent.)
2. All images include alt tags to provide descriptions to user agents that don't support images or that have images turned off. All images with unimportant content and all images used as spacers for layout use a null string in the alt tag. All graphical bullets use an alt tag of "Item: " or are rendered using list-style-image cascading style sheets (CSS) properties.
3. All text on this site is displayed using relative rather than fixed font sizes, enabling you to select an appropriate size using the features of your user agent. The only exceptions are a few occurrences of text rendered as graphics to establish visual identity through logos of the project.
4. All text on this site is displayed with high contrast between the text foreground and background colors.
5. The pages of this site provide support for abbr and acronym tags, enabling devices such as screen readers to understand, for example, that "CSS" means "cascading style sheets" thereby providing proper meaning to what would otherwise be an unpronounceable nonsense word.

Motor Disabilities
People with motor or mobility impairments or disabilities need certain accommodations to use Web sites easily and effectively. For example, some use specially designed input devices if a finger, hand, or arm has limited or no ability. The following features of this Web site support their needs:

1. All forms on this site use accesskey and tabindex attributes, enabling swift keyboard access to form fields and ensuring a predictable tab order between fields.
2. Some links use the title attribute to provide more information about a link before you select it, enabling you to make better judgments about choosing a link before making a physical commitment to choosing it.
3. All pages on this site include link tags such as Home, Contact, Accessibility, and Site Map, which provide standardized navigation in user agents that support them. User agents can provide these links in a consistent location on the page and also within their own interfaces (e.g., menus). There are also keyboard shortcuts for these special links.
4. All pages on this site include the following accesskey keyboard shortcuts:

Internet Explorer users must also press Enter after the accesskey.