Accessibility Statement

If you have any questions or comments about the accessibility of this site, email the Help Desk at helpdesk@rose-hulman.edu.

Access keys

Most browsers support jumping to specific links by typing keys defined on the web site. On Windows, you can press ALT + an access key; on Macintosh, you can press Control + an access key.

The home page and all archives define the following access keys:

Access key 1
Home page
Access key 4
Search
Access key 0
Accessibility statement

Standards compliance

  1. The majority of pages validate as XHTML 1.0 Transitional, with the exception of the Announcements and Banner Production Environment Updates.

Links

  1. Whenever possible, links are written to make sense out of context. Many browsers (such as JAWS, Home Page Reader, Lynx, and Opera) can extract the list of links on a page and allow the user to browse the list, separately from the page.
  2. There are no links that open new windows without warning.

Visual design

This site uses cascading style sheets for visual layout. Printing a page from this site will automatically size the text appropriately for reading and remove navigation content.

  1. Internet Explorer has a limited text resizing feature ("View" menu, "Text Size"), but it only works with relative font sizes. A special stylesheet that uses relative font sizes is automatically served to visitors using Internet Explorer.
  2. If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets at all, the content of each page is still readable.

Accessibility references

  1. W3 accessibility guidelines, which explains the reasons behind each guideline.
  2. W3 accessibility techniques, which explains how to implement each guideline.
  3. W3 accessibility checklist, a busy developer's guide to accessibility.
  4. U.S. Federal Government Section 508 accessibility guidelines.

Accessibility software and services

  1. Bobby, a free service to analyze web pages for compliance to accessibility guidelines.
  2. HTML Validator, a free service for checking that web pages conform to published HTML standards.
  3. Web Page Backward Compatibility Viewer, a tool for viewing your web pages without a variety of modern browser features.
  4. JAWS, a screen reader for Windows. A time-limited demo is available.
  5. Lynx, a free text-only web browser.

Related resources

  1. Dive Into Accessibility, a guide to creating accessible pages, and where the original version of this accessibility statement can be found.
  2. WebAIM, a non-profit organization dedicated to improving accessibility to online learning materials.
  3. Designing More Usable Web Sites, a large list of additional resources.