Central Budapest

Accessibility Statement

CentralBudapest.com is committed to making all materials and services as accessible as possible.

This website currently implements several features designed to improve accessibility.

As part of our ongoing developments we will be developing this website and all materials in accordance with the "Bobby" and "Section 508 standards". These include the use of ALT tags to make the resources friendly to speech converters such as "JAWS" and customisable colours and fonts.

If you want to help us to achieve our aim for complete and open accessibiity then you can send any comments and observations about potential improvements to us at CentralBudapest.com

Benchmark

The main sections of this website conform to the following exacting standards:

Accessibility

Current estimates suggest that between 10 percent and 20 percent of the population have some type of disability. Adaptive technologies provide these individuals with a gateway to information and education. International law reflects the importance of accessible standards for Web-based resource development.

CentralBudapest.com is committed to the accessibility of our website and resources. Accommodation for people of all needs helps increase the availability of high quality experiences to every individual. Users of websites include an increasing number of people with sensory, physical or learning disabilities, who rely on adaptive technologies for a gateway to information and education. CentralBudapest.com is working with leaders in the accessibility field to ensure that our software complies with both industry standards and federal guidelines for accessibility.

Accessibility Audit

CentralBudapest.com conducts internal and external accessibility audits of our website and resources against both industry standards (e.g. Web Accessibility Initiative Standards - WAIS, W3C) and Section 508 guidelines. CentralBudapest.com views this to be a critical component of our resource development process.

Continued Vision

CentralBudapest.com is continuing to research and evaluate additional assistive technology optimization. We are committed to building our resources towards the World Wide Web Consortium's Web Accessibility Initiative Standards (WAIS, W3C).

Resources

The Adaptive Technology Resource Centre

http://www.utoronto.ca/atrc/education.html

The ATRC actively promotes inclusionary design in information networks. The centre works closely with education, government, industry and organizational partners to increase accessibility and awareness of access issues. The ATRC consults to decision making bodies locally, nationally and globally on issues related to access to information technology. The ATRC also provides information, demonstrations, and training in the use of access technology to educators, students, the media and the general public.

CAST

http://www.cast.org/

The center for applied special technology is a not for profit organization that uses technology to expand opportunities for all people, including those with disabilities.

IBM Accessibility Center

http://www-3.ibm.com/able/accessweb.html

The IBM Accessibility Center presents a checklist to make Web sites accessible. The list has been updated and includes some of the latest quick tips and guidelines from the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative found at www.w3.org/WAI

Jaws

http://www.freedomscientific.com/index.html

JAWS for Windows works with your PC to provide access to today's software applications and the Internet. With its internal software speech synthesizer and the computer's sound card, information from the screen is read aloud, providing technology to access a wide variety of information, education and job related applications

Section 508

http://www.section508.gov/

Site is run by the Center for Information Technology Accommodation (CITA), in the U.S. General Services Administration's Office of Governmentwide Policy.

UAAG 1.0 and Section 508

http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/508/508-UAAG.html

This document compares U.S. Section 508 Standards (Combined Subparts B,C & D) and User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG) 1.0 requirements and priorities.

Utilities

A-Prompt

http://aprompt.snow.utoronto.ca/

A tool which identifies potential accessibility problems and provides guided editing to correct the problems.

Bobby

http://www.cast.org/bobby

An online or downloadable accessibility checker which provides a semi-automated assessment of accessibility problems on a Web page or group of Web pages; it can identify many problems on sites, and lists problems which it is not able to evaluate automatically and which require manual review.

Macromedia:508 Accessibility Suite for Dreamweaver and UltraDev

http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/accessibility/

A program/extension to test websites and make them accessible.You can identify potential accessibility problems on selected pages by running tests specified by the 508 regulations defined by the US Federal Access Board and guidelines defined by W3C/WAI. You can quickly find those problems, fix them and get additional information.

SSB Technologies

http://www.ssbtechnologies.com/

SSB Technologies provides tools to make your Web sites, Intranets, and Web-enabled applications accessible for people with disabilities. Featuring Section 508 compliance and web accessibility solutions.

WAVE

http://www.temple.edu/inst_disabilities/piat/wave/

An online accessibility assessment tool that flags any items on a Web page which should be examined for potential accessibility problems, and provides a description of what the problem might be.