It is a priority for Credo that our system is accessible to all types of users, and we have designed Credo Reference to be used effectively by people with disabilities.

Credo is committed to compliance with disability aids, such as screen readers, and has tested the platform with the JAWS screen reader. Specific elements have been put in place to aid visually-impaired users, including each page on Credo has hyperlinks specifically placed to enable users with screen readers to skip common navigation elements of our pages and jump to a page's main content; provided relationships to the headers of pages to permit automated navigation to deep pages which helps screen readers navigate the site; and provided a narrative sitemap that describes pages within Credo to users who cannot see them. Credo provides text equivalents for images, charts and graphs.

Credo has been designed to be used with either keyboard or mouse controls. Our help section describes how to operate the various features of Credo Reference using only the keyboard:
http://help.credoreference.com/Wiki.jsp?page=Keyboard%20operation

Compliance
The Credo Reference web site adheres to the following standards and guidelines:

• Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act
• W3C’s Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Priority 1 and Priority 2 checkpoints