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Our website conforms to various specification for accessibility and web standards. The site is constructed to be friendly to visitors with visual impairments and other users who use screen readers or other accessibility technology. We made sure that all images contain an alternate text description, for instance, and special code (hidden from most visitors) allows users of accessibility technology to skip each page's graphical menus.

The site validates as XHTML 1.0 Transitional, a programming specification from the World Wide Web Consortium, an international standards body that "develops interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools) to lead the Web to its full potential."

Why does this matter? Constructing a site that conforms to web standards and to accessibility guidelines ensures that the most people can access information about VNA, most easily, using the widest range of technologies available. Whether our website visitors come to us on a Macintosh, Windows, or Linux computer; use an Internet Explorer, Netscape, or Opera web browser; view our site on an aging laptop, the newest desktop computer, or a screen reader, we want to make sure they are not shut out from the information available on our site.

For more information, see any of the following:

• Web Standards: The World Wide Web Consortium's XHTML 1.0 Specification
• Web Standards: The Web Standards Project, "a grassroots coalition fighting for standards that ensure simple, affordable access to web technologies for all."
• Accessibility: Watchfire's "BOBBY" Accessiblity Standard, an internationally-recognized standard for website accessibility.
• Accessibility: Section 508, the website for the U.S. federal government's requirement that "Federal agencies' electronic and information technology is accessible to people with disabilities."
• More Info: Contact Brian Hoke of Bentley & Hoke LLC, author of this page and developer of this site.