Resources for Accessibility to the Built Environment

The Home Modification Information Clearinghouse Website was developed to cater for people with disabilities. The pages comply with the strict HTML 4.0 definition, use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for their layout.

For more information about the standards which were followed in the development of this site, visit the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) site.

The pages of the Home Modification Information Clearinghouse Website which have been validated as XHTM, CSS and WAI-A compliant and accessible contain the appropriate logos at the bottom of the page (for example, this page).

The validation engines used were:

If you have trouble viewing this page (in terms of layout), it may be because your browser does not support the HTML or Cascading Style Sheets. Downloading the latest version of Internet Explorer or Firefox may help solve this.

To test if your browser handles style sheets properly, visit the W3C Cascading Style Sheet test suite. A good indication whether your browser will work with this site is given by the Display, box, float and clear test page.

You can view larger text by going to your browsers toolbar at the top of the screen and clicking on "view". Then click on "text size" and make a selection.