Accessibility

The Industrial Design Program is committed to ensuring that this website is accessible to everyone. If you have any questions or suggestions regarding the accessibility of this site, please contact us, as we are continually striving to improve the experience for all visitors.

Accessibility Features

Scalable Font Sizes

To help make the site readable for all users, the site has been designed with scalable font sizes. To see this in action, try the following: * For Internet Explorer and Mozilla browser users, on your top menu, go to View > Text Size > and change the selected text size * For other browsers, check your browser help on 'scalable font sizes'.

Sizes Acronym Expansion

If you see an acronym in a menu and aren't sure what it means, just hover your mouse over the acronym and the expanded name will appear.

Header Elements are used to convey document structure

Our site uses the H1, H2, H3, etc... tags as suggested by the W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines2. For example, the most important title on the page uses the H1 tag, the second most important, the H2 tag, and so on. This helps our users who navigate via header elements to more easily work their way through a page.

"Skip to Page Content" available on each page

If you are navigating our site using the tab key, when you hit 'tab' for the first time on a page, a "Skip to Page Content" link will appear in the upper left hand corner of the page.

Alt tags added to every image

Adding alt tags to images allows for a description of the image to appear, or be read, by those who are not viewing the images. Visual Cues for links that open in a new window When you see a link that has this icon link opens in new window beside it, that link will open in a new browser window.