Standards and Policy
The Dairy Alliance Web site, as an official Penn State University Web site, abides by the university's policies for campus computing resources and Web page design:
- Web Page Design and Image - AD54
- Computer and Network Security - AD20
- Use of Institutional Data - AD23
- Web Page Design and Image - AD54 (http://guru.psu.edu/policies/ad54.html)
- Computer and Network Security - AD20 (http://guru.psu.edu/policies/ad20.html)
- Use of Institutional Data - AD23 (http://guru.psu.edu/policies/ad23.html)
All pages of this site identified as version 3 and above are coded using accepted Web standards Web standards (http://www.webstandards.org/):
- XHTML 1.0 Transitional (http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/)
- Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) 2.0 (http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/)
- Document Object Model (DOM) (http://www.w3.org/DOM/)
Version 3 and higher of www.das.psu.edu meets all guidelines set forth by the Web Accessibility Initiative Web Accessibility Initiative (http://www.w3.org/WAI) of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) (http://www.w3.org/) and conforms to all standards in Section 508 Section 508 (http://section508.gov) (29 U.S.C. ' 794d) of the Rehabilitation Act.
The adherence to Web standards has produced a site that is accessible to all members, stakeholders and friends of the university community. Pages in this site load 50-200% faster than the previous design.
Browser Requirements
Standards-compliant browsers are required to view the full visual page layout. As of this writing, compliant browsers include (in alphabetical order): Microsoft Internet Explorer 5+, Mozilla, Mozilla Firefox, Netscape 6+, Opera 7+, Safari. Browsers not meeting these minimum requirements as well as text-based browsers (Lynx) have access to all page content, but without the page layout.
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