Accessibility Statement

The Universal Low Vision Aids, Inc. website has been designed to be accessible to as many people as possible. If you have difficulty using our site please let us know and we will do our best to rectify this in future maintenance and development.

All pages on this site comply with the priority 1 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. This site uses Miva Merchant to generate the E-Commerce shopping cart and secure checkout webpages. Currently, these specific pages may not comply with all of the items listed in our accessibility statement. Future development of this website will focus upon making every webpage found on ULVA's website universally accessible and easy to use.

Access Keys

Access keys are keyboard shortcuts that replace the need to use the mouse for navigation in browsers that support them. To move to a link or control in Internet Explorer for Windows, you can press ALT + an access key (if the access key is a number, you must use the number keys on the number row not the num pad). To move to a link or control in Mozilla Firefox for Windows, you can press ALT + SHIFT + an access key. Once selected press Enter to activate the link. Below is the complete listing of access keys that are currently defined for use throughout the website:

0: Skip to main content on page
1: Jump to Home Page Link
2: Jump to Products Link
3: Jump to Sales Items Link
4: Jump to Contact Us Link
5: Jump to Resources Link
6: Jump to Accessibility Statement Link
7: Jump to Site Map Link
8: Jump to View Cart Link
S: Jump to Search Products Form Field

Font Sizes

This site uses only relative font sizes, compatible with the user-specified “text size” option in visual browsers. If you find that the text is too small for you to read, you can change it to a size you're more comfortable with:

In Windows Internet Explorer, use the View - Text Size menu.
In Firefox and other Mozilla browsers, use the View - Increase Text Size option.
In Macintosh Internet Explorer and Netscape 6 and 7, use the View - Text Zoom menu.
In Safari, use the View - Make Text Bigger option.
In Opera, use the Zoom selector.

Headings

This content of this website is organized using structured semantic markup. Each page is properly grouped with headings. Headings are used for main topics and titles and allow for easier navigation when using screen reading software such as JAWS for Windows. For example, on this page, JAWS users can skip to the next heading within the accessibility statement by pressing h.

Skip To Links

At the start of every page there is a short menu, visible to screen readers and users with style sheets disabled, that allows you to jump directly to some key areas and pages on the site. Each of these also has an access key associated with it. The same menu appears on all the pages of this site. Sighted users who use the keyboard to navigate will also see these links appear on screen when using the Tab key to navigate through the page.

Visual Design

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are used to control visual layout throughout this site. If your browser or browsing device does not support Cascading Style Sheets, the content of this site will still be readable and usable.

Forms and Browse Mode for Screen Readers

To enter text into a form field (e.g. the product search field), JAWS users will need to first enter forms mode by pressing ENTER and Window-Eyes users will need to first turn off Browse mode by pressing CTRL + SHIFT + A.