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Web Accessibility Statement

Neighborhood Health Plan developed this Web site to ensure its content is available to the widest possible audience, including readers using assistive technology or accessibility features. By adhering to guidelines for accessible Web design, we acknowledge the diversity of communication methods, available technologies and varied user ability.

NHP strives to maintain conformance to W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). The public pages on this site meet the criteria for Level A compliance with WCAG guidelines.

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Standards Compliance

NHP.org has been validated for compliance with W3C CSS (cascading style sheets) and XHTML 1.0 Transitional.

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Links

  • All links contain a title describing it in greater detail.
  • A link containing the words "Web site" will open a new browser window linking the user to an external Web site.
  • Whenever possible, links have been written to clearly articulate the target when taken out of context. Many browsers, such as JAWS, Home Page Reader, Lynx, and Opera, can extract the links contained on a page to allow the user to browse the list separately from the page context.

Images

  • All content images include descriptive ALT attributes. Purely decorative graphics include null ALT attributes.

Visual Design

  • NHP.org uses cascading style sheets for visual layout.
  • Site is designed using scalable font sizes so that browsers are able to resize text as needed.