"The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect."
Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director and inventor of the World Wide Web

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The Office of Continuing Education is committed to the effort to make our web pages accessible to diverse populations regardless of disability.

Section 508 All Office of Continuing Education web pages comply with Section 508, the 1998 amendment to the Workforce Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Section 508 requires that all federal agencies' electronic and information technology be accessible to people with disabilities. Our pages have been verified using Bobby Worldwide to ensure compliance with Section 508 design specifications.

XHTML 1.0 Transitional All Office of Continuing Education web pages are coded using XHTML. XHTML is the next generation of HTML and the new standard for web development. Our pages have been validated to the World Wide Web Consortium's new XHTML 1.0 Transitional Specification.

Cascading Style Sheets All Office of Continuing Education web pages use CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) for page layout, style, and printing. All of our stylesheets have been validated to the World Wide Web Consortium's new CSS2 Specification.

If you have difficulty accessing one of our pages, please contact the Office of Continuing Education and let us know the page title or URL and what part of the page is difficult to access. Please keep in mind that our pages may contain links to web sites that are maintained by other departments or organizations whose pages may not have the same degree of accessibility as our own.

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Access Keys

The Office of Continuing Education has provided access keys (keyboard shortcuts) to essential pages throughout the site. Navigation to all other pages on the site can be obtained from these essential pages.

• On Windows based computers - Pressing "ALT" and the access key will give focus to that specific link on the page. If you press "Enter," you will then be taken to that page.
• Macintosh based computers - Pressing "CTRL" and the access key will automatically send you to that specific page.

Note: Browser support for access keys is currently limited to newer browsers.

Access Key	Associated Link
c	Contact
b	About
m	Site Map