Durant Independent School District
District Administration
Accessibility
DISD's website accessibility statement
Durant Independent School District has made a commitment to making information accessible to everyone, even individuals who have a disability, use assistive technology, or use a non-traditional user agent or browser. This website is a demonstration of this commitment. If you have any questions or comments regarding content, accessibility, or any other area of the web site, contact us.
Standards Compliance
During the development of the site, DISD fully tested its website for accessibility compliance according to the following standards:
- Pages on this site are mostly Bobby A approved, complying with most Bobby guidelines. Many accessibility features can be measured, but many can not. DISD has reviewed the guidelines and found most content to be compliant.
- Pages on this site are mostly W3 Web Content Accessibility Guidelines approved, complying with most priority 1 guidelines. Many guidelines are intentionally vague and can not be tested automatically. DISD has reviewed the guidelines and found most content to be compliant.
- Pages on this site are Section 508 approved, complying with all of the U.S. Federal Government Section 508 Guidelines. DISD has reviewed the guidelines and found all content to be compliant.
- All pages on this site validate as XHTML 1.0 Transitional. For example, check the home page for XHTML validity.
- All pages on this site use structured semantic markup.
Images
All content images used in this site include descriptive ALT attributes. Purely decorative graphics include null ALT attributes.
Dropdown Menus
This site uses the Ultimate Dropdown Menu v4 by BrotherCake, a free-use license for educational institutions, all rights reserved.
Visual Design
This site uses cascading style sheets for visual layout. If your browser or browsing device does not support style sheets at all, the content of each page is still readable.
Accessibility references
- U.S. Federal Government Section 508 accessibility guidelines
- Oklahoma ABLE Tech is funded by the Rehabilitation Services Administration and is part of a National effort of Assistive Technology Programs.
- W3 accessibility guidelines, which explains the reasons behind each guideline
- W3 accessibility techniques, which explains how to implement each guideline
- W3 accessibility checklist, a busy developer's guide to accessibility
Accessibility Software
- JAWS, a screen reader for Windows. A time-limited, downloadable demo is available.
- Home Page Reader, a screen reader for Windows. A downloadable demo is available.
- Lynx, a free text-only web browser for blind users with refreshable Braille displays
- Links, a free text-only web browser for visual users with low bandwidth
- Opera, a visual browser with many accessibility-related features, including text zooming, user style sheets, image toggle. A free downloadable version is available. Compatible with Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and several other operating systems.
Accessibility Services
- Bobby, a free service to analyze web pages for compliance to accessibility guidelines. A full-featured commercial version is also available.
- HTML Validator, a free service for checking that web pages conform to published HTML standards
- Web Page Backward Compatibility Viewer, a tool for viewing your web pages without a variety of modern browser features
- Lynx Viewer, a free service for viewing what your web pages would look like in Lynx