Accessibility

The College of Nursing is committed to ensuring that this web site is accessible to everyone. Although we continue to test and modify for accessibility, there may be some legacy pages and pages developed by third-parties that are not fully compliant with our standards. If you have any questions or suggestions regarding the accessibility of this site, please e-mail the site administrator at conweb@uic.edu.

Access keys

Some browsers support jumping to specific links by typing keys defined on the web site. On Windows, you can press ALT + an access key; on Macintosh, you can press Control + an access key.

All pages on this site define the following access keys:

• Access key 1 - home page
• Access key 2 - skip navigation
• Access key 3 - staff directory
• Access key 9 - inquiries and feedback
• Access key 0 - accessibility statement (this page)
  

Standards Compliance

• All pages on this site are comply with the U.S. Federal Government Section 508 Guidelines. While it is not possible to verify every guideline automatically, we have inspected these pages and believe that all these pages are in compliance.
• All pages on this site are WCAG A approved, complying with all Priority 1 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, as well as some of the Priority 2 guidelines.
• All pages on this site use structured semantic markup. H1 tags are used for main titles, H2 tags for subtitles, etc.
  

Links

• Many links have title attributes which describe the link in greater detail, unless the text of the link already fully describes the target (such as the title of a web site).
• Links are written to make sense out of context.
  

Images

• All content images used in this site include descriptive ALT attributes. Purely decorative graphics include null ALT attributes.
• Complex images include LONGDESC attributes or inline descriptions to explain the significance of each image to non-visual readers.
  

Visual design

• This site uses a combination of tables and cascading style sheets for visual layout.
• This site uses only relative font sizes, compatible with the user-specified "text size" option in visual browsers.
• If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets, or if you are using an older, non-standards-compliant browser, the content of each page is still readable.
  

Accessibility References

• W3 accessibility guidelines, which explains the reasons behind each guideline.
• W3 accessibility techniques, which explains how to implement each guideline.
• W3 accessibility checklist, a busy developer's guide to accessibility.
• U.S. Federal Government Section 508 accessibility guidelines.
  

Accessibility Software & Services

• Bobby, a free service to analyze web pages for compliance to accessibility guidelines. A full-featured commercial version is also available.
• HTML Validator, a free service for checking that web pages conform to published HTML standards.
• Web Page Backward Compatibility Viewer, a tool for viewing your web pages without a variety of modern browser features.
• JAWS, a screen reader for Windows. A time-limited, downloadable demo is available.
• Lynx, a free text-only web browser for blind users with refreshable Braille displays.
• Links, a free text-only web browser for visual users with low bandwidth.