Accessibility Policy

If you are having a problem accessing this Web site please let us know and we will work to ensure accessibility. If you have any difficulty viewing any page with adaptive technology, please contact us so that we can improve this website. Please be as specific as possible in your description of the problem(s) encountered as well as the location on the web site.

In order to maximize accessibility, this site has been designed in conformance with:

• Technical Standards for Web-based Intranet and Internet Information and Applications (36 C.F.R. § 1194.22) as promulgated by the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board, pursuant to section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C. § 794d).
• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0, as promulgated by the World Wide Web Consortium, conformance level Triple-A (excluding checkpoints 3.3, 3.4, 9.4, 9.5, 10.2, 10.4, 11.1, 11.3, 13.7, 14.1, and 14.2)
• XHTML 1.0 standard, as promulgated by the Word Wide Web Consortium
• PICS standard, as promulgated by the Word Wide Web Consortium and implemented by SafeSurf and the Internet Content Rating Association.
• Dublin Core meta standard (version 1.1, revised), as promulgated by the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
• GILS meta data standard, promugalted pursuant to § 2(3511) of the Paperwork Reducation Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. § 3511) -- WAGILS and RIGILS implementations.
• AGLS meta data standard, as promulgated by the National Archives of Australia
• VW96 meta data standard, as promulgated by Vancouver Webpages (Canada)
• Robot meta-tag standard, as developed by the Spidering BOF Group at the 1996 Distributed Indexing/Searching Workshop of the World Wide Web Consortium