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 Donegal Public Art Accessible Site
 Accessibility Statement

The Donegal Public Art Site is composed of a visual site and an accessibility compliant site. This statement outlines the specifics of the accessible site.
Most browsers support jumping to specific links by typing keys defined on the web site. On Windows, you can press ALT + an access key; on Macintosh, you can press Control + an access key. Press return or enter to then vist that link.

All pages on this accessible site define the following access keys:
. Access key 1 - Home
. Access key 2 - Information
. Access key 3 - Artists
. Access key 4 - Locations
. Access key 5 - Links
. Access key 6 - Contact
. Access key 7 - Visual Site

Standards Compliance
  1. This accessible site is Bobby AA approved, complying with all priority 1, 2 and 3 guidelines of the W3 Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
  2. This site is also Section 508 approved, complying with all guidelines of the U.S. Federal Government Section 508 Guidelines.
  3. The entire site validates as HTML 4.01 Transational.
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.  Wherever possible, links are written to make sense out of context. Many browsers (such as JAWS, Home Page Reader, Lynx, and Opera) can extract the list of links on a page and allow the user to browse the list, separately from the page.
  3. Link text is never duplicated; two links with the same link text always point to the same address.
  4. There are no "javascript:" pseudo-links. All links can be followed in any browser, even if scripting is turned off.

Images
  1. All content images used in the home page and elsewhere include descriptive ALT attributes.
  2. In cases the attribute LONGDESC is used to futher describe the image.

Accessibility software and services

  1. Bobby, a free service to analyze web pages for compliance to accessibility guidelines.
  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.
  4. JAWS, a screen reader for Windows. A time-limited demo is available.
  5. Lynx, a free text-only web browser.

Irish Sites

http://www.nda.ie/. The National Disability Authority. There are numerous links here to Irish sites of interest.

http://www.ahead.ie/.The Association for Higher Education Access and Disability.

Valid HTML 4.01 Transitional