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Accessibility

CCC colleges adhere to these accessibility standards, in addition any standards required by the State of Illinois and the ICCB:

1. Use language that is as simple and clear as possible.
2. Use a text equivalent for every non-text element (e.g. via "alt", "longdesc", or in element content). Provide a description of all images, sound files, applets, etc. in an ALT TEXT tag. The ALT tag allows you to convey to all users the content and meaning of your page.
3. Use equivalent alternatives for javascript/FLASH navigations, or any time-based multimedia presentation (e.g., a movie or animation), synchronize equivalent alternatives (e.g., captions or auditory descriptions of the visual track) with the presentation.
4. Design web pages so that all information conveyed with color is also available without color. If color alone is used to convey information, people who cannot differentiate between certain colors and users with devices that have non-color or non-visual displays will not receive the information.
5. Organize documents so they are readable without requiring an associated style sheet.
6. Provide redundant text links instead of server-side image map. Provide client-side image maps instead of server-side image maps except where the regions cannot be defined within available geometric shape.
7. Row and Column headers shall be identified for data tables.
8. Markup shall be used to associate data cells and header cells for data tables that have 2 or more logical levels of row or column headers.
9. Do not use frames. Web pages containing frames are not universally accessible.
10. Use descriptive links. Avoid using "click here" to denote a link.
11. When a web page requires that an applet, plug-in or other application be present on the client system to interpret page content, provide a link to a plug-in or applet.
12. Test web pages in multiple browsers, on both Mac and PC's. Be conscious of the download times of web pages. Some users may be using dialup (56k).
13. Create web forms that are keyboard accessible and easy to use.
14. Allow users to skip repetitive navigation links.
15. Replace deprecated HTML tags with their stylesheet alternatives.
16. Have useful page title names.

Further Accessibility Information:

• http://www.cita.uiuc.edu