Accessibility

Web Site Accessibility Guidelines

The Bureau of Local Employment (BLE) is currently doing the necessary changes to make its programs, projects and services, including its Web sites, accessible for all users, including people who are vision impaired and to those who have hearing, physical, cognitive and neurological disabilities. This is an on-going activity to reach the widest possible audience. If you have any questions or comments about the accessibility of this site, please e-mail the webmaster.

Access Keys

An access key is an assigned keyboard shortcut used with hot keys in web sites. In the BLE web site, you may use these for easier navigation. For example, if you are a Windows© Internet Explorer© user, you may press ALT + 1 + ENTER to go to the home page. The hot keys may also be used with other Web browsers and computer platforms.

Hot Keys

Keys	Functions
1	Home page
2	Skip to content
3	Quick Search
4	Site Map
5	Web accessibility statement (this page)
6	Help page

To navigate the header menu section of the site:

Keys	Description
7	About BLE
8	Programs and Projects
9	Issuances
0	Useful Links

You may also use the TAB key to jump from link to link and press the ENTER key to activate them.

In combination with the key ALT (Windows), CTRL (Macintosh), SHIFT + ESC (Opera), the underlined letter in the browser menu may also be used to perform certain functions:

Keys	Description
C	BLE Contact Information
D	Services for the PWDs
M	Services for the Employers
J	Services for the Jobseekers
Y	Services fot the Youth

To use the hot/access keys, for Windows:

Browser	Key Combination
Internet Explorer	ALT + access key + ENTER
Mozilla/Firefox	ALT + access key
Firefox 2	ALT + SHIFT + access key (to change settings)
Netscape/Gecko	ALT + access key
Opera	SHIFT + ESC + <release> + access key

For Macintosh:

Browser	Key Combination
Internet Explorer	CTRL + access key + RETURN
Mozilla/Firefox	CTRL + access key
Netscape/Gecko	CTRL + access key
Opera	SHIFT + ESC + <release> + access key

On Linux platform:

Browser	Key Combination
Mozilla/Firefox	ALT + access key
Netscape/Gecko	ALT + access key
Opera	SHIFT + ESC + <release> + access key

Reserved Keys

Keys	Functions
F	File
E	Edit
V	View
G	Go (for Mozilla/Firefox only)
B	Bookmark (for Mozilla, Firefox and Opera)
A	Favorite (for Internet Explorer only)
T	Tools
H	Help

Standards Compliance

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international consortium which aims to lead the Web to its full potential to make human communication, commerce and opportunities to share knowledge available to all people no matter what hardware, software, network infrastructure, physical or mental ability.

The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) used in this web site were validated by the W3C. All pages were also validated as HTML 4.01. These validations ensure the pages’ readability and presentation across different browsers.

Images

All images have short descriptions. These are called descriptive ALT attributes.

Visual Design

This site uses cascading style sheets for visual layout.
If your browser or browsing device does not support styles sheets at all, the content of each page is still readable.

Firefox 2 Settings

To change back the hot/access key to ALT + access key stroke combination:

In Firefox 2 browser address bar, type/enter about:config (without http://).This will show all the browser's configuration preferences.
In the Filter field, under the tab/s, type ui.key.generalAccessKey.
Double-click on the result, change the given integer value -1, to 18 and test it again. There is no need to restart your browser.