At CentreIT, we are committed to making our website accessible to everyone. If you have any questions or suggestions regarding the accessibility of this site, please contact us, as we are continually striving to improve the experience for all of our visitors.

Our Service

Our system provides all the tools to create accessible online events, learning, audio and video streaming, and more. We do not force our clients to produce their media in an accessible format, however we provide the tools to do so if they choose. As an example, a company may upload a video, but may elect NOT to upload a captioned version of that video.

During the creation of the web pages to support event, we provide as many controls as is possible and logical to guide our clients to the creation of accessible pages. Our custom-build content management system includes an accessible html editor to help clients achieve clean and accessible pages. However, we do not prohibit clients from disabling this editor and placing their own HTML code into the content manager, circumventing our accessibility goals.

We do have a long-range plan that will help eliminate some and hopefully all of these potential issues.

Standards compliance

1. All pages on this site follow U.S. Federal Government Section 508 Guidelines
2. All pages on this site follow priorities 1 & 2 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
3. All pages on this site validate as XTML 4.01 Strict.
4. All pages on this site use structured semantic markup. H1 tags are used for main titles, H2 tags for subtitles. For example, on this page, JAWS users can skip to the next section within the accessibility statement by pressing ALT+INSERT+3. Opera users can skip sections by using "S" and "W" to cycle forwards and backwards respectively through headings.

Structural Markup

Web pages on www.centreit.com include 3 different areas:

1. A header bar that includes the main navigation,
2. A main content area,
3. A footer.

When CSS (Cascading Styles Sheet) are not applied to a document (or when using a screen reader), the 3 areas are read in the above order.
Access Keys

This site DOES NOT YET have the access key attribute.

Images

1. Unless they are purely decorative items, all images used on this web site have suitable alt attributes.
2. Content should be usable/accessible with images "off" (disabled).
3. The main navigation bar on this site uses an Image Replacement technique that makes the links accessible to non-visual browsers.

Links

1. Many links have title attributes which describe the link in greater detail, unless the text of the link already fully describes the target.
2. Links are written to make sense out of context.
3. The first link in every document is a "SkipNav"; it is to skip directly to what is considered the main section of the page (the content). We have implemented this feature in a way that it allows Internet Explorer users to tab through (past that target link).
4. URLs are permanent whenever possible.

Forms

1. All form controls are appropriately and explicitly labeled.
2. We provide an email address as an alternative form of access for our online forms.
3. Forms on this site can be accessed through an access key (1).
4. Form validation routine does not rely on client-side script.

Scripts

1. We are using non obtrusive client-side scripts.
2. Content of this web site is usable without JavaScript support.

Pop up Windows

1. In visual browsers, unless Javascript is disabled, a small icon appears next to links to external resources, the title attribute of these links says "(opens in new window)".
2. Browsers with Popup Blockers should be able to access these external documents.

Visual design

1. This site uses cascading style sheets for visual layout.
2. This site uses only relative font sizes, compatible with the user-specified "text size" option in visual browsers.
3. If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets at all, the content of each page is still readable.
4. Any information conveyed through the use of color is also available without color (i.e. text based).
5. Immediately following the Skip Nav link, an Accessibility Settings link provides access to settings which allow the user to modify font, font size, background color, font color for the duration of that session of use. Upon leaving the site, these settings are lost and must be re-created on the next visit.

Known accessibility barriers

1. TBD

How to modify this site to fit your needs

These links explain the many ways you can make the web more accessible to you.

• Windows users
• Macintosh users
• Linux users

Accessibility references

1. W3 accessibility guidelines, which explains the reasons behind each guideline.
2. W3 accessibility techniques, which explains how to implement each guideline.
3. W3 accessibility checklist, a busy developer's guide to accessibility.
4. U.S. Federal Government Section 508 accessibility guidelines.

Accessibility software

1. JAWS, a screen reader for Windows. A time-limited, downloadable demo is available.
2. Lynx, a free text-only web browser for blind users with refreshable Braille displays.
3. Links, a free text-only web browser for visual users with low bandwidth.
4. Opera, a visual browser with many accessibility-related features, including text zooming, user stylesheets, image toggle. A free downloadable version is available. Compatible with Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and several other operating systems.
5. NVDA - NonVisual Desktop Access (NVDA) is a free and open source screen reader for the Microsoft Windows operating system.

Accessibility services

1. Accessibility Toolbar. a free IE toolbar with multiple accessibility tools
2. HTML Validator, a free service for checking that web pages conform to published HTML standards.
3. Web Page Backward Compatibility Viewer, a tool for viewing your web pages without a variety of modern browser features.