Accessibility Statement
The University of Nevada, Reno is committed to maintaining fully accessible web sites for persons with disabilities. To this end, all web pages of the University of Nevada gateway web site (those files preceded by "www.unr.edu/content/" in their URL) are compliant with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act.
To ensure full accessibility of the site's content to all browsers and internet devices, graphical presentation is only optimized for newer browsers that support web standards. The content is fully accessible to older browsers such as Netscape 4.x, but without full graphical presentation.
Browser Accessibility
If your browser or internet device does not support stylesheets properly (such as Netscape 4.x), the content of this site is still readable, albeit in a reduced presentation form.
Select browsers that support style sheets:
- Mozilla Firefox: all versions for Windows, Macintosh, and Linux.
- Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 6 for Windows
- Netscape: versions 6, 7, & 8.
- Mozilla: version 1.3 for Windows, Macintosh and Linux
- Safari for Macintosh OS X, version 1.2
Standards Compliance
In order to ensure maximum accessibility on all internet devices such as web-enabled phones, PDAs, as well as most web browsers and operating systems, gateway web pages have been designed in accordance with the W3C's web specifications. All of the gateway pages validate as XHTML 1.0, CSS and Section 508-compliant (front page validations.)
Text resizing
Internet Explorer has a text resizing feature ("View" > "Text Size"), which is compatible with all gateway pages except for the home page due to visual design constraints. Other browsers, such as Netscape 6 & 7 / Mozilla, have text zoom features that also allow you to resize this site's text ("View" > "Text Zoom").
Access keys
Access keys are keyboard shortcuts used to quickly navigate through a web site. Access keys can be invoked with the key combinations Alt+<key> using a PC or Shift+Control+<key> using a Macintosh. Once an access key has "given focus" to a link, the link can then be activated pressing Enter. Links on the Macintosh are automatically activated upon focus. The following access keys are defined on all of the University of Nevada gateway web pages:
| Access Key | Target Link |
|---|---|
| 1 | Go to home page |
| 4 | Go to search window (Windows users: only press Enter after you've typed search terms.) |
| i | Site index |
| c | Contact |
| f | Future Students |
| s | Students |
| t | Faculty & Staff |
| u | Alumni & Friends |
| m | Admissions |
| a | Academics |
| r | Research |
| o | Outreach Statewide |
| a | Athletics |
| b | About Nevada |
| n | Nevada News |
| e | Events |
| p | Apply |
| g | Course Catalog |
| k | Campus Tour |
| q | Chat With Us |
| h | Class Schedules |
| d | Directories |
| 3 | Give to Nevada |
| j | Jobs |
| z | Libraries |
| 8 | Programs, Graduate |
| 9 | Programs, Undergraduate |
| y | Transcripts |
| x | Check Email |
| 2 | Computing Help Desk |
| v | ePAWS |
| 5 | RSS Feeds |
| w | WebCT |
| !* | Copyright Notice |
| #* | Privacy |
| ?* | Accessibility |
* usually selected with the <shift> key