Tips for Enhancing the Accessibility of this Website:
This section provides suggestions for modifications you can make in your operating system and browser to help access Trent University's website. There is currently complete step-by-step accessibility modification instructions for the following via the Government of Ontario website (links below):
Browsers:
- Internet Explorer 6
- Internet Explorer 7
- Firefox
- Safari
Operating Systems:
- Microsoft Windows
- Apple OSX
Step-by-step Instructions
- Change text size: Make websites easier to view by making text larger and more readable.
- Change fonts: Change the font style for web pages you visit to make them more readable.
- Mouse pointer visibility: Helpful if you have trouble viewing the mouse pointer.
- Change colours: Learn how to change the text and background colours for web pages you visit to make them more readable.
- Magnify screen: If resizing text in your browser or operating system isn’t an option, make webpages easier to view through magnification.
- Browse Out Loud: If you have trouble reading online, learn how to make your computer speak back to you.
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Accessibility and Trent University
In December 2001, the Ontario legislature passed the Ontarians with Disabilities Act (ODA). This piece of legislation was designed to improve full participation of persons with disabilities in all facets of life in Ontario through the identification, removal and prevention of barriers to access.
The Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) received Royal Assent on June 13, 2005. Trent is committed to meeting its obligations under both the AODA and the ODA.
Commitment to Accessibility
Trent University is committed to a learning and working environment which provides for the fullest development of the potential of its community members. In keeping with this mission, Trent embraces the environmental model of disability as operationalized in the World Health Organization's definition of disability. In this model, disability is viewed as a consequence of barriers created by design flaws in the built and human environment. It is these design flaws, all human-made, which prevent people with disabilities from full participation in a community.
Trent University is committed to breaking down the barriers which prevent the full inclusion of all of its community members in its living, working and learning environment.
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