Accessibility Policy

Pathways Awareness Foundation is committed to ensuring that this website is accessible to everyone. Our site currently meets the Section 508 and the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) standards. Please note, however, that content on this site is always being updated. If you have any questions or suggestions regarding the accessibility of this site, please contact us, as we are continually striving to improve the experience for all visitors.

At the time of writing this page, we’ve validated our site through the following services:

W3C Mark-up validation

This site was checked and found to be valid XHTML 1.0 Strict. This means that the resource in question identified itself as "XHTML 1.0 Strict" and that we successfully performed a formal validation using an XML Parser.

Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional

Level Triple-A Conformance to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0

This site conforms to level Triple-A of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0, including all Priority 1, Priority 2, and Priority 3 checkpoints defined in the Guidelines.

Level Triple-A conformance icon, W3C-WAI Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0

This site passed Watchfire’s WebXact (formerly Bobby) for accessibility compliance. See http://webxact.watchfire.com/scanform.aspx?sa=1 for more information.

This site passed the Site Valet validator for priority 3 (Triple-A) compliance. See http://valet.webthing.com for more information.

This site passed CynthiaSays test. The HiSoftware CynthiaSays portal is a joint Education and Outreach project of HiSoftware, ICDRI, and the Internet Society Disability and Special Needs Chapter. For more information please see http://www.contentquality.com/.

Cynthia Tested!

Barriers to Entry

This site occasionally uses video to emphasize certain content. We’ve made an attempt to give a short description of all videos on this site.


150 N. Michigan Ave., Suite 2100 - Chicago, IL 60601
  • Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional
  • Level Triple-A conformance icon, W3C-WAI Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0