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About the TSBVI Web Site

This page and the entire TSBVI World Wide Web site strives to be accessible to all people.

Purpose

The Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired World Wide Web site reflects the schools vision of serving as a leading center of educational expertise for students with visual impairments. The TSBVI website strives to be a model for web site design to ensure the information is accessible to individuals with visual impairments. Such information can be easily transformed into Braille, large print, voice output, and regular text. As a technical information resource, the site will focus on four areas:

Training - materials to support training and education, announcements of upcoming training events, and provision of on-line training

Research - provide for the ongoing development and dissemination of research information developed here at TSBVI, within the State of Texas, and elsewhere. It is our hope that such information will coordinate the efforts of professionals working in the classroom, educational center, and academic context

Curricula - provide for the efficient sharing of information concerning education of students with visual impairments.

Technical - provide resources for professionals, parents, and lay persons associated with programs for the visually impaired and deaf/blind throughout the state, country, and world

All resources on the TSBVI Web page are in the public domain unless otherwise noted. You are welcome to use these resources as needed provided that the TSBVI Web page is cited as the source. A basic tenet of TSBVI is to promote the collegial sharing of information. You are invited to submit items for publication on the website. In all cases author contact information will be included. In this manner, we hope to build a valuable resource to promote the development of instructional materials and resources.

Web Site Usability Features

If you have a visual impairment there are many options which you can control from the selection of an accessible browser to modifying your browser to meet your needs. Visit the Large Print and Speech Access to the World Wide Web.

This website strives to follow Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.

The Texas image on each page will link back to the home page

Every graphics image will have alt text to name the graphic. Where appropriate, a graphic will be followed by a D link that provides an in-depth description of the image.

Privacy Policy

The Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired maintains this web site as a public service. The following is the privacy policy for this site (all pages starting with www.tsbvi.edu):

1. We do not use cookies to collect information. Note: A cookie file contains unique information a web site can use to track such things as passwords, lists of pages you've visited, and the date when you last looked at a specific page or to identify your session at a particular web site. A cookie is often used in commercial sites to identify the items selected for a specific shopping cart application.
2. If you send us an electronic mail message with a question or comment that contains personally identifying information, or fill out a form that e-mails us this information, we will only use the personally-identifiable information to respond to your request and analyze trends. We may redirect your message to another government agency or person who is in a better position to answer your question.
3. For site management functions, information is collected for analysis and statistical purposes. This information is not reported or used in any manner that would reveal personally identifiable information, and will not be released to any outside parties unless legally required to do so in connection with law enforcement investigations or other legal proceedings.

We use Log analysis tools to create summary statistics, which are used for purposes such as assessing what information is of most interest, determining technical design specifications, and identifying system performance or problem areas. The following information is collected for this analysis:

• User Client hostname - The hostname (or IP address if DNS is disabled) of the user/client requesting access.
• HTTP header, "user-agent" - The user-agent information includes the type of browser, its version, and the operating system it's running on.
• HTTP header, "referer" - The referer specifies the page from which the client accessed the current page.
• System date - The date and time of the user/client request.
• Full request - The exact request the user/client made.
• Status - The status code the server returned to the user/client.
• Content length - The content length, in bytes, of the document sent to the user/client.
• Method - The request method used.
• Universal Resource Identifier (URI) - The location of a resource on the server.
• Query string of the URI - Anything after the question mark in a URI.
• Protocol - The transport protocol and version used.

Submission Guidelines

• Use a FAQ structure (see bnsemail.htm as an example)
• Identify sources of quoted materials (link to source when available)
• When referencing specific products provide a link to appropriate manufacturer's product page
• Provide complete author information. Name, Organization, Address, E-mail.
• Submit publications for consideration to Jim Allan

Open Records Policy

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Please complete the comment form or send comments and suggestions to: Jim Allan (Webmaster-Jim Allan)

Last Revision: July 16, 2003