Website Accessibility
The Americans with Disabilities Act addresses accessibility for people with disabilities. Website accessibility practices are intended to help ensure that digital information and functionality can be used by people with a wide range of abilities and assistive technologies.
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, commonly referred to as WCAG, provide technical guidance for improving web accessibility.
Accessible web content should be perceivable, operable, understandable, and robust.
Website Accessibility Practices
The Brain, Body, and Behavior website is developed with accessibility practices that may include:
- Meaningful document structure and heading hierarchy
- Text alternatives for meaningful non-text content
- Keyboard-accessible controls and navigation
- Visible focus indicators
- Adequate color contrast
- Readable typography
- Responsive layouts
- Accessible form labels
- Descriptive links
- Support for common assistive technologies
Keyboard Navigation
The website is designed so that primary navigation and interactive controls can be used without requiring a mouse.
Users can generally move through interactive elements using the Tab key and move backward using Shift + Tab. Browser and assistive-technology keyboard commands may vary.
Screen Readers
Website content is structured to support screen-reader software through semantic HTML, headings, labels, alternative text, and other accessibility techniques.
Text Enlargement
Most modern browsers allow users to increase text size or zoom the page.
Windows: Ctrl and + to enlarge, Ctrl and - to reduce.
macOS: Command and + to enlarge, Command and - to reduce.
Images
Meaningful images should include alternative text or an equivalent accessible description where appropriate. Decorative images may intentionally use empty alternative text so that assistive technology can ignore them.
Video and Audio
When prerecorded video or audio communicates information necessary to understand a page, accessible alternatives such as captions, transcripts, or equivalent text may be provided where appropriate.
Forms
Website forms should provide understandable labels and instructions, keyboard access, and meaningful error information where applicable.
External Content
Links may lead to websites, journals, repositories, documents, or services that Brain, Body, and Behavior does not control. Accessibility implementation may differ on those external services.
Reporting an Accessibility Issue
If you encounter an accessibility problem on this website, please use the contact page and include the page address and a description of the issue so it can be reviewed.