Section 508 Standard of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended (29 U.S.C. 794d). Section 508 requires that when Federal agencies develop, procure, maintain, or use electronic and information technology, Federal employees with disabilities have access and use of information and data that is comparable to the access and use by Federal employees who are not individuals with disabilities, unless an undue burden would be imposed on the agency. Although not required by regulation or law, the City acknowledges its obligation to serve its citizens who use assistive technology or who may have other needs, which may be served through Section 508 design principles. The City seeks to bring these sites into basic compliance with Section 508 code.

Site users who encounter difficulty using this site are requested to contact the webmaster describing the nature of the problem and the section where the difficulty was encountered.

Thank you.

Tools

Documents in .PDF format
Free tools from the Adobe Corporation are also available to assist visually impaired users at http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/alternate.html. This link is made to assist in accessibility of .PDF files on this site. No endorsement of Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Systems, Inc., or warranty is implied or expressed.

Additionally, Adobe has added a .pdf conversion tool that will convert .pdf files to HTML pages. You will find that resource at http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/88de.htm. To download, select the hypertext. This link is made to assist in accessibility of .PDF files on this site. No endorsement of Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Systems, Inc., or warranty is implied or expressed.

Diamond™ Demo Tools

508Compliant is committed to raising awareness of accessibility issues and has developed the following tools that it is providing for free. The tools, called bookmarklets, are developed by our CTO, Steve Kangas, and the commercial version of them are incorporated into DiamondTM. However they are offering these demo versions for you to use on web pages to demonstrate how inaccessible most pages are and how easy to use their products are. Please feel free to pass this link on to friends and colleagues and to link to this page to help raise awareness.

These demo tools require Internet Explorer version 5.0 or higher. They will be placed within your Favorites menu and are triggered like any other Favorite link by highlighting and clicking on them.

Click the button to import the demo tools into your Favorites:

The WAVE (Accessibility Tool)
The WAVE was originally developed by Lenoard Kasday at Pennsylvania's Initiative on Assistive Technology, a program of the Institute on Disabilities at Temple University. Development on the current product continues at WebAIM (Web Accessibility in Mind), a project at the Center for Persons with Disabilities at Utah State University.

Opera Browser
Opera's goal is to provide the best Internet experience for all, regardless of device, operating system, languages or accessibility needs. And to reach this goal, we have developed a wide a range of different features, such as zooming, mouse gestures, keyboards shortcuts, and full-screen reader, making Opera the most user-friendly browser regardless of impairment.

Brookes Talk Functions
BrookesTalk is a function key driven Web Browser for blind and visually impaired users, providing keyboard only accessibility using the function keys. It also provides a configurable large text window for partially sighted users and a standard visual browser so that users can work together with sighted workers. Quick views of Web pages are provided using information retrieval and natural language processing techniques.

Microsoft Accessibility
Descriptions of accessibility features in Microsoft operating systems and applications, product documentation in accessible formats, a catalog of assistive technology designed for Windows operating systems, as well as articles, stories, and a calendar of events.

This site is best viewed with Internet Explorer 5.0 or greater, Netscape 6.0 or greater or Opera 6.0