Viewing this site / Accessibility Information

The Center for the Partially Sighted is committed to the effort of making our web pages standards compliant and accessible to diverse a population, regardless of disability.

Display size

To change the size of displayed text:

From the Keyboard:

• For Microsoft Internet Explorer 7-8, Mozilla Firefox 2.0-3.5, Google Chrome and Apple Safari:
  PC: Hold Control and press the + or - keys (easily accessed on the numeric keypad)
  Mac: Hold Command and press the + or - keys (easily accessed on the numeric keypad)
• Opera: Simply press + or - to change the size.

From the menus

• For Microsoft Internet Explorer 7/8, Mozilla Firefox 3.5, Opera 10
  Open the "View" menu, then select "Zoom" and then choose a desired action.
• For Microsoft Internet Explorer 6:
  Open the "View" menu, then select "Text size" and choose a desired value. (unfortunately this does not work too well)
• Google Chrome 4:
  Open the "Control the Current Page" Menu, then select "Zoom" and then choose a desired action.

Using your mouse or trackball

• For most current browsers including Microsoft Internet Explorer 8, Mozilla Firefox 3.5, Google Chrome 4, Safari 4, and Opera 10:
  Hold Control and move the scroll wheel up or down to zoom in and out

Keyboard Shortcuts

This is the list of keyboard shortcuts available on this site (AccessKeys):

• Key "s" - Shortcut to content
• Key "0" - Accessibility information (including this page)
• Key "1" - Homepage
• Key "3" - Sitemap
• Key "4" - Search
• Key "7" - Contact Us

The method to use these keys varies greatly across browser and operating system. Here are a few examples of how to use them:

• Internet Explorer: Hold Alt and press the accesskey, then let go and press Enter.
• Firefox: Hold Alt + Shift press the accesskey.
• Opera: Press Shift + Esc together to bring up the accesskey list, then the accesskey
• Safari: Hold Ctrl and press the accesskey.

Design

This site is best viewed with a current generation browser (Internet Explorer 8.0+, Firefox 3.5+, Opera 10+, Chrome 4+, Safari 4+) at a resolution of at least 1024x768 and a color depth of 24/32bpp (True Color). The minimum requirements for viewing this site are a 4th generation browser at a resolution of 800x600, with a color depth of 4bpp (16 colors).

Technologies

AAA / Section 508	This site conforms to the W3C WCAGL 2.0 specification and qualifies for AAA Approved and U.S Government Section 508 compliant status.
XHTML 1.1	XHTML the standard for HTML formulated in XML. CPS web pages are coded using XHTM and conform to the W3C XHTML 1.1 document type. They have been validated using the W3c XHTML Validator
Cascading Style Sheets	CPS web pages use full CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) implementation for page layout, style, and presentation. All stylesheets have been validated to the W3C CSS2.1 Specification

Non XML/SGML compatible browsers (3rd generation and below) may have difficulty correctly rendering pages. If you have any difficulty accessing one of our pages, please Contact Us and let us know the page title or URL as well as what part of the page is difficult to access. Please understand that our pages may contain links to web sites that are maintained by other departments or organizations whose pages may not have the same degree of accessibility as our own.

Last Updated: Sunday, January 10th, 2010 at 00:48:08