Disability Compliance Alliance

Accessibility Statement

You will find throughout our production various ways to assist our disABLED experience a more satisfying Suring experience, either as a hunter or gatherer.  These assistive methods also benefit those who have no disabilities.

The title attribute is used to provide additional information about a graphic.

Tab order is used in pages where navigation may be problematic.

CSS is using the small size font, which will enable a visitor the ability to change the font size with their browser to accommodate reading problems, if any.

A site map contains every section of our production.

Access keys are provided, although they have some limitations and browser support at present.

Pages which are longer than three scrolls have a access key for returning to the top of page.

We honestly try to remember checking for WAI, W3C and WDG before we upload new pages or make revisions.  Those steps are detailed below.

DCA has taken steps to ensure that the pages on this Web site are at least minimally accessible to people with disabilities who use assistive technology to access the Internet. We follow the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 1.0 which are standards created by the World Wide Web Consortium's Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). WCAG 1.0 compliance levels are described as single-A (meets all priority 1 checkpoints), double-A (meets all priority 1 and 2 checkpoints), and triple-A (meets all priority 1, 2, and 3 checkpoints). To the best of our knowledge this Web site conforms to the section 508 compliance level or better. 

• Pages are periodically tested using assistive technology, such as a voice browser or screen reader program. Lynx simulation, the browsers Opera, Mozilla and Internet Explorer are used at various screen resolutions.
• We continue to assess the Web site for accessibility issues and welcome your comments or feedback. If you are having a problem accessing any part of the Web site, please contact us using visiting our "Contact Us" section.
• Bobby version 5, HiSoftware's  AccVerify and Cynthia Says and A-Prompt are used on our local system to measure accessibility standards.  Due to the judgment call on manual checks, differences in the testing software online and locally, online validations may vary.
• Due to the judgment call on manual checks and the WAI recommendations having knowledgeable friends review is required.  Our friends at the Alabama School for the Deaf and Blind in Mobile, Alabama make regular visits to our web pages and make recommendations for improvement.

If you wish to either validate or view for accessibility,  our web pages or those of your own, please use the links shown below.

• Watchfire's Bobby 4.0
• HiSoftware's - Cynthia Says Portal
• WAVE 3.0 - Web Accessibility Tool
• A-Prompt's Web Accessibility Verifier
• Lynx Simulation

Alt-A or Enter- Top of Page.

Limited use of AccessKeys and non graphic pages are made for demonstration purposes.

W3C and WDG Statement

Validation in accordance with W3C standards is the first step toward accessibility.  We have almost universal acceptance through actual implementation, that faster page loads and a smaller foot print are achieved when pages meet W3C standards.  Therefore we make every attempt to validate our pages prior to publication by using the following tools locally and which you may also find online.

• xhtml Validator-WDG
• W3C CSS Validator
• Tidy
• Accessibility Tool Bar
• A-Prompt

Alt-A or Enter- Top of Page.

Internal and External Links

A Web site URL may become nonfunctional for a variety of reasons which include the following:

• A page or web site may be moved to a new server, which is not uncommon, and will contain precisely the same content but will be inaccessible using the old URL.
• The server hosting the page or web site may be permanently or temporarily unavailable.

Therefore we make periodic checks for our internal and external web site using Xenu.