Our Accessibility Pledge for the The Boston Retinal Implant Project

In order to make the Boston Retinal Implant Project website more accessible to people with visual impairment and multiple disabilities, it has been designed with compliance to the strictest standards according to the W3C, the respected authority on web governance.

APPEARANCE: The Boston Retinal Implant Website allows font size and contrast modes to be adjusted in real time throughout the website. Each page contains the following links located at the top of the main content area allowing the user to have complete control over look and feel of the site.

Click for: smaller text | larger text | Hi-Contrast

Clicking on "smaller" or "larger" adjusts the text size on applicable sections of the website. Clicking on "hi contrast" changes the color scheme of the layout, changing light backgrounds to dark and making the text brighter.

W3C: This website complies with the guidelines for accessible design as suggested by the World Wide Web Consortium and United States Governments Section 508 of the US Rehabilitation Act. The pages on this website validate according to the following standards:

1. All pages on this site is WCAG-AAA approved, complying with all priority 1, 2, and 3 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
2. All pages on this site are approved, complying with all of the Section 508 Guidelines.
3. All pages on this site validate as XHTML 1.0 transitional.
4. All pages utilize custom cascading style sheets (CSS) for content and layout, and have been validated by the W3C.
5. All pages have real-time built in accessible functions, allowing dynamic font size adjustment and real time switching between high contrast and regular contrast color and layout settings.

ACCESS KEYS: Most browsers support jumping to specific webpage links by typing assigned keys on the keyboard. In Microsoft Windows, you can press ALT + an access key; on Macintosh, you can press Control + an access key. All pages on this site are identified by the following access keys:

• Access Key 1 - Home page
• Access Key 2 - About us page
• Access Key 3 - Mission Statement page
• Access Key 4 - Approach page
• Access Key 5 - Retinal Implant page
• Access Key 6 - Blindness and Disease page
• Access Key 7 - Progress page
• Access Key 8 - Directory page
• Access Key 9 - Contact us page
• Access Key A - Accessibility page

This site proudly displays an ACCESSIBILITY pledge badge with the hope that other websites will follow suit to meet or exceed the above standards.