Rural Health Research Gateway

Accessibility Features of the Rural Health Research Web Site

This web site is designed and coded with the goal of making it accessible to everyone. However, the site does host selected content produced by other sources, such as multimedia and PDF files, that may not be fully accessible. This page provides information on specific features that facilitate access.

Using the Features of this Site

Keyboard Shortcuts for Navigation

Several shortcut keys have been defined to enable navigation within and between pages of this site. To use these shortcut keys hold down the ALT key (PC) or CONTROL key (Apple Macintosh) and then one of the keys in the list below.

In some browsers you may have to press enter to confirm your choice.

The following shortcuts are available:

Key Destination Description
V accessibility features and link to VPAT
B skip to the body (content) portion of the page
S search options
H home page
A about Rural Health Research Gateway
O contact page
M site map
R researchers
C centers
T topics
E other resources
D disclaimer
P privacy policy

Skip Links

Each page of this site begins with a link that enables you to skip past the navigation links directly to the content of the page. The link is not visible because it is a one pixel by one pixel transparent image.

Plug-in Downloads

Use this link to download the latest version of Adobe Acrobat. This will allow you to view the PDF documents on this site.
Use this link to download the latest version of Adobe Acrobat

Alternately, you can use this link to convert PDFs to HTML "on-the-fly."

Additional Features

Standards

The primary content of this site has been tested against the accessibility standards established by the U.S. Federal government's Section 508 and the W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Compliance was tested using UsableNet's 508 Accessibility Suite for Dreamweaver, Bobby, and manual testing. Selected content hosted on this site from other sources, such as multimedia and PDF files, may not meet these standards.

Keyboard Accessibility

This site can be navigated solely with the keyboard.

Compatibility

This site has been tested on a PC platform on various versions of Internet Explorer, Netscape, Opera, Mozilla, and Lynx browsers.

This web site includes content provided by and adapted from the Maine Rural Health Research Center, University of Southern Maine under a Cooperative Agreement with the University of North Dakota.