Accessibility

To navigate through different sections of the site:

You may also use the TAB key to jump from link to link and press the ENTER key to activate them.

To use the hot/access keys, for Windows:

For Macintosh:

On Linux platform:

In combination with the key ALT (Windows), CTRL (Macintosh), SHIFT + ESC (Opera), the underlined letter in the browser menu may also be used to perform certain functions:

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international consortium which aims to lead the Web to its full potential to make human communication, commerce and opportunities to share knowledge available to all people no matter what hardware, software, network infrastructure, physical or mental ability.

The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) used in this web site were validated by the W3C. All pages were also validated as XHTML 1.0 Strict. These validations ensure the pages’ readability and presentation across different browsers.

1. Many links have title attributes. This makes the site easier to navigate and the information easier to find.
2. To help the users who extract a list of all the links on the page and browse it separately from the content, links were written to make sense out of context. Browsers such as JAWS, Home Page Reader, Lynx and Opera have this function.
3. Link text is always unique. Two links with the same link text always point to the same address.

All images have short descriptions. These are called descriptive ALT tags.

1. This site uses cascading style sheets for visual layout.
2. If your browser or browsing device does not support styles sheets at all, the content of each page is still readable.

1. JAWS, a time-limited downloadable screen reader
2. Home Page Reader, a time-limited downloadable screen reader
3. Here are free web browsers for visually impaired users.
4. Links, a free, text-only web browser for visual users with low bandwidth
5. Google Chrome, features a minimalistic user interface, with its user-interface principles later being implemented into other browsers.

1. World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
2. Watchfire, a free service that checks the compliance of web pages to accessibility guidelines
3. HTML Validator, a free service that checks the conformance of web pages to published HTML standards
4. Lynx viewer, a service that shows the views of web pages in Lynx
5. WDG HTML Validator, a free service that uses third-party PERL modules and other programs to support a wide range of character encodings

To change back the hot/access key to ALT + access key stroke combination:

1. In Firefox 2 browser address bar, type/enter about:config (without http://).This will show all the browser’s configuration preferences.
2. In the Filter field, under the tab/s, type ui.key.generalAccessKey.
3. Double-click on the result, change the given integer value -1, to 18 and test it again. There is no need to restart your browser.

References:

• ui.key.generalAccessKey
  
• ui.key.contentAccess
• ui.key.chromeAccess 

1. Philippine Web Accessibility Group (PWAG), a non-stock, non-profit association of web designers and advocates of web accessibility. Its mission is to “teach and promote web accessibility in the Philippines as a method of making information accessible to all”.
2. Section 508 requires that Federal agencies’ electronic and information technology is accessible to people with disabilities.
3. WebAIM, a non-profit organization dedicated to improving accessibility to online learning materials.
4. Designing More Usable Web Sites, a comprehensive list of additional resources.
5. Vision Office Support Services, a pioneering advocate of accessible information and communications technology (ICT) for all, including persons with disabilities.