Accessibility Information Page

General Site Information

The IPL site has been redesigned to make it accessible to persons with disabilities. Accessibility elements include: cascading stylesheets for content presentation, top of page breadcrumb navigation and search mechanism, content headings and subheadings, meaningful link phrases, alt tags, no-script alternatives to javascript, accesskey-based navigation, and skip links.

Future modifications will be based on usability research and include table-less page structure through <div> tags, content-first sequencing, and Google-type search capabilities.

With the exception of some web pages in the Literary Criticism Collection and the Native American Database — and the Live at the IO Special Exhibit — all of the IPL should now be compliant with W3C standards for XHTML 1.0 Transitional and CSS.

If you have any feedback regarding accessibility, our website’s W3C standards compliance, or the use of our website in general, please share it with us via our Contact form

Accesskeys‡

This site provides accesskeys to take you to the following common links:

• Alt + 1 = Home page†
• Alt + 2 = Go to the main content
• Alt + 3 = Go to the navigation bar
• Alt + 4 = Go to the top of the page
• Alt + 5 = Search our site
• Alt + 6 = Go to our contact form
• Alt + 7 = Go to our Ask A Question reference service†
• Alt + 0 = Go to our Accessibility information page

† On KidSpace and TeenSpace, accesskeys can lead to webpages specific to kids and teens, respectively.

‡ WARNING! Internet Explorer users will need to press "Enter" or "Return" after using the accesskey combination. This is a bug in IE that we at the IPL cannot do anything about.

We apologize to users of Internet Explorer for Macintosh. We could not get our hover menus on our navigation bar to work properly for the Mac IE browser, but they should work on the Mac for all other major browsers, i.e. Safari, Firefox, Opera, Netscape, and Mozilla.