The UNC ACCESS Project is committed to ensuring that its site is accessible to all users. This Web site conforms to existing recommendations and standards and has been tested with various assistive technologies. If you encounter a problem accessing the ACCESS site, or if you would like to provide feedback on the ACCESS site, please contact us using the "Contact Us" link below. To reach ACCESS staff with questions about other issues, view our complete contact information.
During the development process, our authors followed the W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 to ensure that the site would be accessible. The site uses valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional and CSS 2.0, and it also meets the standards set in the Web-based applications section of the Section 508 standards.
All images on this site are accompanied by a brief alt-text tag which identifies the image or its function. If you are using a graphic browser, alt-text tags are visible only if the browser's automatic image-loading feature is turned off.
In addition, some images include the longdesc attribute and a "D" link. Selecting this D-link will bring you to a textual description of the image. The description is typically two or three sentences long and may contain hyperlinks. At the end of the description is a "Return" link. Selecting this link will take you back to the original image.
Access keys are provided as a shortcut for users visiting major areas of the ACCESS site. Access key strokes consist of ALT plus the access key on Windows machines and Control plus the access key on Macs. Windows users need to hit 'enter' to follow access key links, but the Mac access keys follow links automatically. Access keys are defined as follows:
Access key A: Skip Navigation
Access key B: Text-Only Page
Access key B: Access Instruction
Access key C: WCAG Conformance
Access key D: Home Page
Access key E: NC Geographic Map Main Page
Access key F: Data and Links: 16 Campuses of UNC
Access key G: Best Practices
Access key H: Web Accessibility
Access key I: Accessibility and the Law
Access key J: Who are we?
Access key K: Glossary
Access key L: Site Map
Users can also employ the "tab" key to cycle through all of these links in the global page header.
All text hyperlinks are written so that they make sense when read out of context.
Some layout tables are used on this site. However, all content makes sense when the page is linearized. Where tables are used for the presentation of data, table cells are associated with headers to facilitate navigation with screen readers. Also, each data table has a summary which provides additional information about the table's contents.
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This Site Designed by Thomas C Barnett <tbarnett2@gmail.com>
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