This site employs many features to make information more accessible:

• All images have text alternates (ALT attributes)
• Where possible pages are organized to be fully functional, even with javascript turned off
• Most text uses relative font sizes so text can be enlarged or reduced using the text size options available in visual browsers (see instructions below)
• The site can be navigated without the use of a mouse (see instructions below)
• Page formatting is done with CSS not tables to ensure that the semantic structure of the information is preserved
• All pages are designed with separate cascading style sheets, so they can be replaced by user-defined style sheets
• This site follows World Wide Web accessibility guidelines

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The site can be used without a mouse. The following shortcut keys will take you to commonly used pages such as the home page:

Most navigation elements are plain text and we have provided text alternatives to graphics on the site.

Those with poor sight may be able to increase the size of the text on screen. The procedure for doing so differs from one browser to the next. The table below outlines the procedure for some popular browsers. If your browser does not appear in the table the following guidelines may be of assistance: In general, looking under the "View" selection on the main menu, you should find an option called "Text Zoom" or "Text Magnification" or "Text Size" or "Font Size". From that point it should be relatively simple to find and select an additional sub menu option that adjusts text size to your needs.