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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.

Site Tools

Portable Document Format (PDF) files can be read with a PDF Reader.  Adobe Acrobat Reader allows you to read PDFs and complete PDF forms for printing.  » Download the latest version of Adobe Acrobat Reader.

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