Accessibility Policy

EFFECTIVE AS OF November 1, 2004

This accessibility statement is designed to help you understand how we have tried to make this site accessible to the largest number of users. If you have an accessibility problem with our site please contact us and we will be happy to provide you the information you need.

Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act as amended, 29 U.S.C. Section 794d, requires that Federal agencies' electronic and information technology is accessible to people with disabilities. We have tested this site to these standards and have passed on all of the major section pages.

We have also tested our site against the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 and have passed with a AAA certification on all of the major section pages.

Areas of our website that may not pass the accessiblility guidelines include the printable versions of our forms and some limited legacy data from the original website. Every effort is being made to convert these areas to the current standards. All of the major sections of the site are accessible.

All of our pages have also been validated by the W3C HTML Validation service and have passed. This ensures that the greatest number of browsers will be able to use our site.

All of our CSS coding has also been validated by the W3C CSS Validation service and has passed with flying colors. This ensures that the greatest number of browsers will be able to use our site.

Accessibility Resources

Free tools from the Adobe Corporation and Microsoft are available to assist visually impaired users who may have difficulty accessing this information. These links are provided as a convenience and no endorsement of these products is implied or expressed.

The links below provide accessibility information and are not endorsed or promoted by the OCD Recovery Center. These links will open in a new browser window.