Contact: David Bender, dbender@dot.state.nc.us, 919.807.0774

Accessibility Statement of Compliance for Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

Accessibility Statement

The management of this program and the web host, the Institute for Transportation Research and Education at North Carolina State University are committed to offering the information on this Web site to all of its users. Areas of this Web site use PDF documents to provide a method of successful printing of the information that is also available as HTML accessible by alternative technologies. If you have difficulty gaining access to information on this Web site, please contact us, we will be happy to assist you. Some documents provided in Microsoft Word may not read or open correctly in older versions of Microsoft Word. In this case, a PDF or hard copy can be provided to you. If you find a document in PDF that you cannot use with assistive technologies, please bring it to our attention. We welcome comments or suggestions for improvement, please contact us.

Mary Meletiou, Bicycle and Pedestrian Program Manager, Institute for Transportation Research and Education
desk: 919-515-8771
mpmeleti@unity.ncsu.edu
Fax: 919-515-8898
Postal:
Mary Meletiou, ITRE
North Carolina State University
Centennial Campus Box 8601
Raleigh, NC 27695-8601

Accessibility Resources

The Electronic and Information Technology Accessibility Standards ("Section 508 final rule"), National Federation of the Blind's Guidelines for Web Accessibility and the World Wide Web Consortium's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines describe the elements of accessible web pages. Yahoo lists companies that provide assistive computer technology, including screen reading software. There is also assistive technologies provided on most operating systems and can be set up on a personal computer through the control panel.

Adobe Acrobat PDF Files

Many of the documents on the our Web site are in HTML or ASCII (plain text) formats. These formats are generally accessible to people who use screen readers. We also have documents in Adobe® Acrobat® Portable Document Format (PDF).

PDF format is used to preserve the content and layout of our hard copy publications. Publications in PDF can only be viewed and printed using the Adobe Acrobat Reader™, version 4.0 or higher. You can download and get help using the Acrobat Reader at the Adobe Systems, Inc. site. The downloadable Acrobat Reader software is available at NO CHARGE from Adobe.

People using screen-reading devices generally are unable to read documents directly in PDF format, unless they have an accessibility plug-in installed on their system along with the Adobe Acrobat Reader. This plug-in is available at NO CHARGE from Adobe. Adobe also has online tools that will convert PDF files to HTML on request. To get the plug-in and latest news about Adobe's accessibility tools and services, visit the Adobe site.

Style Sheets

This Web site uses style sheets to set font sizes, font colors, font types and other formatting styles. You may adjust your browser settings to disable these styles or override them with your own preferred font sizes, colors, and types. The use of style sheets is recommended for compliance. Older browsers cannot read style sheets. It is recommended that you upgrade your current browser with a FREE new browser. Visit your preferred browser Web site for this download.

Tips to navigate this site

Use of access keys

The invocation of access keys depends on the underlying system. For instance, on machines running Microsoft Windows, one generally has to press the "alt" key in addition to the access key. On Apple systems, one generally has to press the "cmd" key in addition to the access key. The rendering of access keys depends on the user agent.

The access key label text and coding for the access key used for the main navigation of this site.

On this site, access keys are available for the top navigation menu and generally the access key is associated with the first letter of the word, or in the case of repeated access letter usage, the first letter of the second word of the navigation button.

Use of Jump to Content Link

A jump to content link is provided on each page. The link is available as one of the top hidden links and jumps over the navigation to the body content with adaptive technologies.

Use of Headings, and Tables for data

This site uses headings to assist users in finding content. Layout tables are used for an attractive Web site for sighted users and are coded so that adaptive technologies can skip over these tables. Data tables are often used to organize text or to provide traditional data in a table. All data tables have summaries and captions to assist the user in locating information.

Content in languages other than English

Currently, the site is only available in English. You may translate any URL into your desired language using the following Web sites: http://world.altavista.com/ or http://www.google.com/language_tools. Note: Some browsers have a translation button under view on your main menu of the browser.

Instructions on how to view this Web site in another language:

1. Copy the Web page URL address.
   
2. Visit one of the Web sites for translation linked above.
   
3. Navigate to the heading for translating a Web page
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4. Select desired translation and paste the URL into the box, strike the "translate" button. The site is then navigable in the language of your choice. Word documents and pdf documents will not translate with these tools. If you need assistance to understand the English on these documents, please call for assistance.