accessibility information

Site Accessibility

Accessible Design

This site employs many features to make information more accessible:

• All images have text alternates (ALT attributes)
• Where possible pages are organized to be fully functional, even with javascript turned off
• The text size for the content of each webpage may be resized using the font controls in the page options section of the header.
• The site can be navigated without the use of a mouse (see instructions below)
• All pages are available in a text only version.
• Use of frames is kept to a minimum to avoid confusion and are labeled to describe their function.
• The page should modify it's layout if viewed by a resitricted access browser.
• Page formatting is done with CSS not tables to ensure that the semantic structure of the information is preserved
• All pages are designed with separate cascading style sheets, so they can be replaced by user-defined style sheets
• This site follows World Wide Web accessibility guidelines

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Using the site without a mouse

The site can be used without a mouse. The following shortcut keys will take you to commonly used pages such as the home page:

AccessKey	Function
0	Navigate to Accessibility page.
1	Navigate to Home page.
2	Navigate to My email.
3	Navigate to My Account.
4	Navigate to Site Map page.
5	Navigate to Contact us page.
6	Navigate to Members channel.
7	Navigate to Communications channel.
8	Navigate to News & Info channel.
9	Navigate to Entertainment channel.
[	Skip down to the Primary navigation block.
]	Skip down to the more links within this section block.
=	Bypass all navigation and jump to the content
s	Skip down to the Search box.
x	Switch to the version of this page.

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The procedure for using shortcut, or 'Access' keys, varies depending on which web browser you view the site with. The following table shows the AccessKey combinations for a range of popular web browsers:

Operating System	Browser	AccessKey Combination
PC Windows	Internet Explorer 4 and above	ALT + AccessKey (to focus the link) + ENTER to activate
PC Windows	K-meleon	ALT + AccessKey
PC Windows	Mozilla	ALT + AccessKey
PC Windows	Netscape 6 and above	ALT + AccessKey
PC Windows	Opera 7	SHIFT + ESC, followed by AccessKey
MAC OS 9	Internet Explorer 4 and 4.5	Not supported
MAC OS 9	Mozilla	Not supported
MAC OS 9	Netscape 4	Not supported
MAC OS 9	Opera	Not supported
MAC OS X	I-Cab 2.8	CONTROL + AccessKey * * you may need to click on the page first
MAC OS X	Internet Explorer 5 and 5.1	CONTROL + AccessKey * * some systems require CONTROL + COMMAND + AccessKey
MAC OS X	Mozilla	Not supported
MAC OS X	Netscape 6 and above	CONTROL + AccessKey
MAC OS X	OmniWeb 4	Not supported
MAC OS X	Opera	Not supported
MAC OS X	Safari	Not supported

Note: You can still access any keyboard shortcuts that were previously in use by your browser by pressing the command key and then the access key rather than both at the same time.

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