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Accessibility

Important Update

If you have been using the site's translate feature, you will need to switch to using the browser's translate function. The translate widget has been disabled due to serious accessibility concerns it has been posing on our site.

Turning on Page Translate

Google Chrome (Desktop/Laptop)

  1. Open Settings → Language → Use Google Translate and make sure it is on.
  2. Return to OSB's webpage and click Translate
  3. Select your language then wait for Chrome to translate

Goal of Accessibility for all

Overbrook School for the Blind desires to provide a positive user experience to all our families and the community, and we aim to promote accessibility and inclusion. Our goal is to allow all of our visitors the ability to successfully gather information through our website and other technology platforms. Following the guidelines of the World Wide Web Consortium and Section 508, our website should be usable by everyone, with or without disabilities.

Accessibility Assistance

If you have difficulty using or accessing any element of this website, please feel free to contact us via email and we will work with you to provide the information you seek through a communication method that is accessible for you consistent with applicable law. You can reach us via telephone at 215-877-0313.

Tools & Actions

We are actively taking a variety of steps and devoting resources to further enhance the accessibility of our website and other technology. We enlisted Allyant services in conjunction with a designer so that our new site focused on accessibility efforts first, and a beautiful design as a compliment to that accessibility. Allyant will continue to audit our site for accessibility and report back on where we can continue to provide you a rich experience using our tools. Although we are proud of the efforts that we have completed and that are in-progress Overbrook School for the Blind will continue to view accessibility as an ongoing effort.

We are very proud of the efforts we have made thus far and those that that are in-progress, we will always consider accessibility an on-going effort, and will always strive for continual growth.

Browser and Assistive Technology Support

The following list details the assistive technology and combinations that work well together on the website.

  • Fully Supported
    • JAWS (Chrome/FireFox)
    • NVDA (Chrome/FireFox/Opera)
  • Partially Supported
    • TalkBack (Chrome/FireFox/Opera)
  • Untested
    • VoiceOver
    • Narrator

FEEDBACK

Please email John Stevens if you have any feedback or suggestions as to how we could improve the accessibility of this website or our other technology.

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    Philadelphia, PA 19151
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