At School of Engineering we are striving to make our Website as accessible as possible. If you are a person with a disability, we would like to hear from you about your experience with our Website. Please e-mail comments to Web Designer.

Accessibility Features

• The main pages of the school site are mostly text-based and simple in structure so that they can be translated easily by screen-readers. People with low vision may enlarge text using their Web browsers' "text zoom" or "increase font size" options.
  
  
• Our Site Map is a text-based overview of the School of Engineering Website, with links to all the main areas of the site.
  
  
• Images on the main pages are accompanied by descriptive "alt" text. (Non-informative images, such as spacers and decorative graphics, are designed to be ignored by screen-readers and will not normally carry any descriptive text.)

Accessibility Issues

• Some screen-readers, including JAWS 3.7, have difficulty reading PDF files; however, if you have JAWS 4.0 or higher, we suggest that you download the Adobe accessibility plug-in for Acrobat 5, which should enable these versions of JAWS to read PDFs.
  
  
• On a site as large as this, it is perhaps inevitable that some pages will be more accessible than others. If you encounter difficulty with any particular section of the site, please e-mail the web designer

Accessibility in the Future

• Over the 2003-2004 academic year, a focus group studied Web accessibility issues and tested the The School of Engineering site in various screen-readers. The main pages of the site were made more accessible. To address accessibility issues on pages deeper down in the site, the Web designer is working with course leadres and groups throughout the school.

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