Accessibility Features
The National Council on Disability Affairs designed its Official Website with accessibility as its top priority. It strives to make this site accessible for all users, including people with disabilities. If you have any questions or comments about the accessibility of this site, feel free to email the webmaster.
Access Keys
Common keyboard shortcuts are applied here. However, here are the Accesskey assignments to help us navigate the site. Use the combined ALT + Accesskey + ENTER keys.
Access Key Functions
- Alternate key + 0 – Accessibility Statement (this page)
- Alternate key + 1 – Goes back to Home Page
- Alternate key + 2 – Skip to main content
- Alternate key + C – Contact Information
- Alternate key + M – Site Map
- Alternate key + S – Search/Advanced Search
General Web Site Layout
The front (home) page uses the 3-column format along with basic web design parts (Heading, Content and Footer). The succeeding pages are consistent with its design and column positions all throughout the web site.
The design specifications are:
For Heading:
- The top most bar above the main heading banner has the “Skip” links so people with navigation difficulty can go directly to the content.
- The heading banner has a graphic logo and name image, the heading titles can be heard from a screen reader.
- The search form appears before the navigation bar.
- The top navigation bar has links to most important contents of the website including the Home, Disability Laws and Contact Information. There are no drop-down menus.
- The sub-navigation bar has links to NCDA related content. There are also no drop-down menus.
For Content:
- On the Home page, the left column consists of links to latest news items, other headlines, Quick Helps, Sub-committee and Division reports. Once you click them, you will be transported to the complete news article posts. For the rest of the pages, this column shows the page content.
- The middle column contains news articles related to different regions administered by NCDA.
- The right column contains Announcements, Latest Comments, Poll Surveys, NCDA YouTube Video and Links to Government and Non-government agencies.
- Each content page includes Breadcrumbs line or composed of link pages where the viewer is currently located.
- The content of right column changes on every page. It contains Related Posts and Announcements.
For Footer:
- The footer left side rows contain Copyright, NCDA’s complete Contact information and Site developer validation links.
- The right side contains the Log In, Policy, News Archive, Site Map and Contact Us links.
Other Instructions and Features
- Simply press enter on the “Skip Links” to go directly to specific parts of the website.
- All images have ALTERNATE text attributes. Decorative graphics appear on the CSS files.
- The web site can be resized to any font size.
- There are no PDF files included. The website uses the unobtrusive JavaScript and Flash files have equivalent graphic image.
- Videos that appear here include closed caption or sub-titles.
- This site makes extensive use of Cascading Style Sheets. If you will view the encoding source, the site is neatly arranged without the clutter of non-cascading style sites.
- This site also makes a near accurate visual rendering from all browser versions of Mozilla FireFox, Google Chrome, Apple Safari and Opera as well as Internet Explorer from versions 6 to 8 starting at 1024 x 768 screen resolution.
Conformance
- As one of the founding organizations of Philippine Web Accessibility Group, this website strictly conforms with the group’s Web Design Accessibility Recommendation up to Maturity Stage 2 Checkpoints.
- This website also passed the Section 508 Web Accessibility Design Compliance automated verification.
- This website is still making some corrections but will strive to achieve the W3C Standard Compliance for XHTML 1.0 Strict Document Type automated verification.