| The President's Volunteer
Service Award strives to maximize the accessibility and usability
of our
website. If you have any comments or suggestions, please
email us at inquiries@presidentialserviceawards.gov.
This site implements the W3C recommendations for the design
of accessible web pages. We strive to be not only accessible
but also highly usable for all our users. To facilitate usability,
each of our web pages feature not only the common "skip
nav" link to skip repeated navigational content but also
links to skip to textual navigation links with descriptions.
Access Keys
The President's Volunteer
Service Award website uses access keys so that our users can
get to and use our important links as quickly as possible.
Keyboard
access is important for users who do not have ability to
use a pointing device.
Each of the areas of the President's Volunteer
Service Award website has been constructed
to allow users to bind keyboard strokes to actions. Not only
is this an essential tool for sections of the community it
is a quick and easy way for everyone to navigate the site.
A number of browsers allow you to jump to specific links using
special keys. On Windows the combination is to press ALT and
an access key, on Macintosh it is Control and an access key.
The set
of keys used on most pages on this site are:
ACCESS KEY |
LINK/PAGE |
1 |
HOME |
2 |
About the Award |
3 |
Earn the Award |
4 |
Guidelines |
5 |
Volunteer Opportunities |
6 |
My volunteer record |
7 |
Meet the Council |
In addition the following codes are defined for links on the
main pages:
ACCESS
KEY
|
LINK/PAGE |
k
|
Kids page |
t
|
Teens page |
a
|
Adults page |
f
|
families & groups page |
c
|
Certifying Organization page |
u
|
About Us |
p
|
Privacy |
h |
Help |
n |
Contact us |
d |
downloads |
i |
login |
Please note:
(Netscape (Apple Macintosh) does not understand the keyboard
short cut commands for linking. There are no access key's for
the links section.)
Notes for Users of Assistive Technologies
The President's Volunteer Service Award
team is very interested in knowing how usable the President's
Volunteer Service Award website is to those that use alternative
technologies
such as JAWS.
Please contact us with ideas or suggests on improving usability
of the President's Volunteer Service Award website at inquiries@presidentialserviceawards.gov. Tips for Making Your PC More Accessible
- Making your e-mail text bigger
- Making text bigger in your web browser
- Slowing down the mouse
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Using StickyKeys
- Jumping between open programs using Alt+Tab
- Assistive technology
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