Accessibility
The Alternative Media Access Center is committed to ensuring accessibility of its website for people with disabilities. All of the pages on the AMAC website should conform to Section 508 standards as well as the University of Georgia Web Accessibility and Persons with Disabilities guidelines. The AMAC website has been validated using the W3C Markup Validation Service and WAVE.
If you have any questions or comments, please contact us at: amac@uga.edu
Access keys
Access keys have been established for keyboard accessibility of active elements on the AMAC website. For Windows, press ALT+access key; for Macintosh, press CONTROL+access key.
- Access key b: Feedback
- Access key c: Contact AMAC
- Access key d: Directions
- Access key h: AMAC Homepage
- Access key i: Intranet
- Access key m: Site Map
- Access key o: Text-Only
- Access key q: FAQs
- Access key r: UGA RCLD Homepage
- Access key s: Student Center
- Access key u: University System of Georgia Homepage
- Access key w: Wiki
- Access key x: XHTML Validation
- Access key y: Accessibility
- Access key 0: 508 Validation
- Access key 1: Services
- Access key 2: NEON
- Access key 3: SAM
- Access key 4: Assistive Technology
- Access key 5: Training
- Access key 6: Research
- Access key 7: Resources
- Access key 8: Publications
Submenu items on each page use access key 9 and cycle depending on the number of submenu items.
Visual Design
The AMAC website utilize the following:
- Cascading style sheets to control page elements. Style sheets can be turned off the page.
- HTML, CSS and JavaScript are properly identified.
- Relative font sizes; text is resizable.
- Limited usage of tables. Tables are labeled when relevant.
- Color is secondary to meaning.
- Non-flickering screens.
- Links have title attributes or descriptive targets. Links are written to make sense out of context. Link text is not duplicated (same text means same link).
- Images have ALT attributes.
- Contact information is available on every screen.
- Text-only version
Navigational Elements
The AMAC website utilize a standard template with navigational elements as follows:
- Pages are keyboard accessible using the tab key or Access keys as defined above.
- Links: link titles are clear and concise and make sense when read out of context.
- Horizontal navigation links are located at the top and bottom of each page.
- Vertical navigation links are located at the left of each page.
Acronyms and Abbreviations
- AMAC, Alternative Media Access Center
- RCLD, Regents Center for Learning Disorders
- UGA, University of Georgia
- USG, University System of Georgia