University of Southern Maine Athletics is dedicated to accessibility for all websites over which we have control. We are required to use a pre-formatted header and footer on our front page; those sections (only) of that page do not validate and are not accessible to aural browsers. We apologize for the inconvenience and have made a text only version of that page. We also use a pre-formatted generator for the Husky Shop and have not found one that is accessible or that will validate; we ask that those having trouble navigating the shop or its forms Contact Us. For more information or with suggestions on how we can achieve better accessibility, please contact us.

Instructions for Users with Visual Disabilities

With the exception of the previously mentioned front page and the Husky Shop, our graphic pages have been designed to be used with a screen reader. In addition, images on our web site are accompanied by a word image tag that may be visible if your browser supports the alt-text function.

We have also provided descriptions of photographs that contribute to the content of the web page. When appropriate, we make use of the "longdesc" tag to enable the browser to reach a description of our graphics. There are instructions ot use the browser's back button to the originating page.

If a web page has an on-line form that is not accessible, please call the phone number or e-mail the office listed on the form webpage for assistance in obtaining the form or filling it out.


Instructions for Users who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing

When USM Athletics initiates audio features to our websites we will require that all audio and audio/video clips have text transcriptions or descriptions with a closed-captioned (CC) hyperlink . At this time the USM Athletics has not posted audio or audio/video clips on our web sites.


General Statement on Our Coding

Our webpages (excluding the front page and the Husky Shop) and our stylesheets validate according to W3C standards. Most pages are coded to XHTML protocol while a few still remain as HTML 4.0.

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