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ACCESSIBILITY STANDARDS
The Fresno City College
web site (www.fresnocitycollege.com) is designed and is in compliance
with Level A standards of Priority 1 accessibility standards
as set forth by the The Federal Information Technology Accessibility
Initiative, and the Web Accessibility Initiative. The Fresno
City College web site also meets the United States Federal Standards
of Web-based Intranet and Internet Information and Applications
(1194.22).
Fresno City College, State
Center Community College District, and the design firm of The
Madison Avenue Group, Inc. do not warrant that any site
linked from this site is in compliance with Section 508. We attempt
to alert you when you are leaving the Fresno City College web
site. You can tell if you are at the official web site if the
URL starts with http://www.fresnocitycollege.com/
Web-based Intranet and Internet
Information and Applications (1194.22)
The criteria for web-based
technology and information are based on access guidelines developed
by the Web Accessibility Initiative of the World Wide Web Consortium.
Many of these provisions ensure access for people with vision
impairments who rely on various assistive products to access
computer-based information, such as screen readers, which translate
what's on a computer screen into automated audible output, and
refreshable Braille displays. Certain conventions, such as verbal
tags or identification of graphics and format devices, like frames,
are necessary so that these devices can "read" them
for the user in a sensible way. The standards do not prohibit
the use of web site graphics or animation. Instead, the standards
aim to ensure that such information is also available in an accessible
format. Generally, this means use of text labels or descriptors
for graphics and certain format elements. (HTML code already
provides an "Alt Text" tag for graphics which can serve
as a verbal descriptor for graphics). This section also addresses
the usability of multimedia presentations, image maps, style
sheets, scripting languages, applets and plug-ins, and electronic
forms.
Colors and Tables
Throughout the Fresno
City College web site, we utilize tables as design elements and
not as tables, such as those found on a spread sheet that would
have a column heading. The purpose of this is to organize the
page information and flow of information and to maintain performance
across browsers.
Colors, and bold type are also
used across the web site. They are used for visual appeal and
to bring visual attention to such items as links. For the most
part, navigation is by text links, and not through graphic mapping.
While we make every attempt
to keep pages in compliance, there are times that a page may
be in development, or a page that has been missed, as there are
over 600 pages in this web site. If you find a page that you
feel is not in compliance with Section 508, please contact the
webmaster through the link at the bottom of this page.
Overall Goal
The overall goal is to make
this web site and the information: easy to access; comply with
Section 508; have navigation ease; understandable and logical
flow and to help you find what you are seeking from Fresno City
College.
Thank you for your interest!
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