Accessibility Statement & Usage Tips

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA Section 508) Statement of Accessibility

Accessibility Statement - Accessibility is Evolving in 2007!

CreatiVisibility is committed to offering the information on this Web site to all of its users. The site will evolve into an accessible ADA Section 508 compliant site in 2007. The section 508 rule applies to Web sites built with public funds and this site does not fall under that condition, however, accessibility is very important to CreatiVisibility.

CreatiVisibility has done its best to accommodate most browsers and believe in web standardization as according to the Worldwide Web Consortium.

Areas of this Web site use pdf documents and images for portfolio illustration. If you need information provided in these pdf's or images that you cannot gain access to in this Web site, please contact Lisa Gullette, to assist you. Effort has been made to provide text information that is provided in pdf on this Web site accessible to everyone with assistive technologies. If you find a document in pdf that you cannot use with assistive technologies, please bring it to my attention. Please also send comments or suggestions for improvement, contact CreatiVisibility .

Accessibility Resources

The Electronic and Information Technology Accessibility Standards ("Section 508 final rule"), National Federation of the Blind's Guidelines for Web Accessibility and the World Wide Web Consortium's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines describe the elements of accessible web pages. Yahoo! lists companies that provide assistive computer technology, including screen reading software.

Adobe Acrobat PDF Files

Many of the documents on our Web site are in HTML or ASCII (plain text) formats. These formats are generally accessible to people who use screen readers. We also have documents in Adobe® Acrobat® Portable Document Format (PDF).

PDF format is used to preserve the content and layout of our hard copy publications. Publications in PDF can only be viewed and printed using the Adobe Acrobat Reader™, version 4.0 or higher. You can download and get help using the Acrobat Reader at the Adobe Systems, Inc. site. The downloadable Acrobat Reader software is available at NO CHARGE from Adobe.

People using screen-reading devices generally are unable to read documents directly in PDF format, unless they have an accessibility plug-in installed on their system along with the Adobe Acrobat Reader. This plug-in is available at NO CHARGE from Adobe. Adobe also has online tools that will convert PDF files to HTML on request. To get the plug-in and latest news about Adobe's accessibility tools and services, visit the Adobe site.

Style Sheets

This Web site uses style sheets to set font sizes, font colors, font types and other formatting styles. You may adjust your browser settings to disable these styles or override them with your own preferred font sizes, colors, and types. The use of style sheets is recommended for compliance. Older browsers cannot read style sheets. It is recommended that you upgrade your current browser with a FREE new browser. Visit your browser Web site for this download.

Tips to navigate this site

Use of access keys (where applicable)

The invocation of access keys depends on the underlying system. For instance, on machines running MS Windows, one generally has to press the "alt" key in addition to the access key. On Apple systems, one generally has to press the "cmd" key in addition to the access key. The rendering of access keys depends on the user agent.

The access key label text and coding for the access key used for the main navigation of this site.The access key is emphasized by the underline on the word provided for the navigation link.

On this site, access keys are may be available for menus and some may need to repeat the use of an access key letter. Pressing it a second time will select the next instance where the access key is used on the page. Sometimes more than one access key letter is used on a page, you must key through them as you would using the tab key to jump to the next link. This has been avoided as much as possible.

Use of Jump to Content Link

A jump to content link will be provided on each page. The link is available as one of the top hidden links and jumps over the navigation to the body content with adaptive technologies.

Use of Headings, and Tables for data

This site uses headings to assist users in finding content. Layout tables are used for an attractive Web site for sighted users and are coded so that adaptive technologies can skip over these tables. Data tables are often used to organize text or to provide traditional data in a table. All data tables have summaries and captions to assist the user in locating information.

Content in languages other than English

Currently, the site is only available in English. In the future, we are hoping to add technologies that convert the site into other languages. Until that is offered, you may translate any URL into your desired language using the following Web sites: http://world.altavista.com/ or http://www.google.com/language_tools