ADA

Web Page Guidelines

ADA Office

Suffolk County Community College strives to provide equal access for educational opportunities to all its students. Therefore, the college supports SUNY’s accessibility recommendation and adopts the W3C’s Web Accessibility Initiative, Priority 1 as its minimum standard for its Web pages as listed below:

1. All pages stored on college servers that are linked from the college’s home pages will meet the Priority 1 standard. This includes but is not limited to administrative, academic, departmental, faculty, student service, student activity, and student organization pages.
   
2. The college recognizes that it cannot control the compliance of external sources. When choosing to link to an external document, college page developers should consider the accessibility of the information from these sites and proceed according to the recommendations published in the SCCC Web Development Accessibility Guidelines. The college will recommend that the sites of its corporate and organizational partners provide accessible pages, particularly where these pages are linked from the college.
   
3. All online instruction, instructional support pages and student assignments published to the Web, either through a course management system or directly, will be compliant if a student registered in the course requires this level of access to participate. The college, however, will work to make all online material accessible.
   
4. All personal pages on college servers will be accessible if they are linked as noted in item 1 above or if an individual invites the community to view it. The invitation could include posting the URL on a list serve, discussion list, or in a handout.
   
5. The college will work to educate its students on the need for developing accessible pages. As an institution of higher education, it is important that SCCC foster an atmosphere of equality and diversity.
   

Why a Guide is Necessary:

The guide helps in the designing of pages to insure Suffolk County Community College's meeting ADA requirements. The guide provides style sheet guidelines and information on helping web page designers meet Priority 1 approval.

Who Uses this Guide:

Web page designers for administrative, academic, departmental, faculty, student service, student activity, and student organization pages. To help facilitate Priority 1 compliance we are providing design guide information. This information is found in many places on the Web. We are consolidating this information for SCCC personnel to minimize time spent in searching for solutions.

Please review the disclaimer notice below when linking to a non-compliant page or website.

Priority 1 Approval:

Priority 1 conformance is easily checked by going to Bobby.

Enter the URL of the page that you want Bobby to examine and click Submit. This dialog will only test one page at a time. If you wish to test an entire site as a batch, use the downloadable version of Bobby.

After Bobby reviews your page you will see the following statement:

" This web page does not contain any Priority 1 accessibility errors that Bobby can detect. However, certain items require human judgment; these are listed below. Please review these items; if none of these apply to your page, it qualifies for Bobby Approved status".

Review the items requiring human judgment, make a change on your page if you feel it is appropriate for the message you are trying to convey. Bobby only recommends you review these comments.

Procedure When Linking to External URLs:

When connecting to an external URL it is recommended that the URL be checked for Priority 1 compliance by using the BOBBY testing resource. 

If the external URL is non-compliant an email should be forwarded to the administrator of that site advising them of the non-compliance and asking them if and when they plan to be compliant. The return email should be maintained in your file for future follow-up.

Disclaimer When Linking to External URLs:

It is necessary when linking to an external URL that is non-compliant that we use the following disclaimer:

"The links provided on this page may or may not be compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of  July 26, 1990".

Design Information to Help Facilitate Priority 1 Compliance:   

Design Information to Help Facilitate Priority 2 Compliance: 

For information and assistance please contact Eli Reiter or Ray Roses