Bronx Independent Living Services has selected Microsoft Office Live Small Business for its website content because of Microsoft's commitment to providing features that are accessible and usable for people with special needs or disabilities, without requiring additional accessibility aids.

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What Would You Like To Do?

View pages in high-contrast mode-If you use Internet Explorer, you can view Microsoft Office Live in high-contrast mode to make it easier to read:

1. In Internet Explorer, on the Tools menu, select Internet

    Options, and 

    then click Accessibility.

2. Ignore colors specified on Web pages, 

    Ignore font styles specified on Web pages, and Ignore font

    sizes specified on Web pages, and then click OK.

For information about viewing pages in high-contrast mode when using another Web browser, consult that browser's Help.

Use Alt Tags

Images used on Microsoft Office Live pages contain Alt tags. When you place your cursor over the image, a text description of the image appears for use with screen readers or other assistive technologies. In cases where an Alt tag would provide no information or would be redundant with other text, Alt tags may not be used

Accessibility Features in Office Live Small Business

To make Microsoft Office Live Small Business pages easy to navigate by keyboard, you can use access keys to reach specific links in pages. Using access keys you press two more more keys simultaneously to highlight the element you want on the page. After highlighting an element, press ENTER to follow the link.

The following access keys are supported in Office Live Small Business:

 Note   These access keys are designed to work with Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 and later. Access keys may not function if you are using other Web browsers or earlier versions of Internet Explorer.

Accessibility Features in Office Live Workspace Beta

You can use keyboard shortcuts in Microsoft Office Live Workspace beta to make it easier to interact with your computer without using your mouse as often. The keyboard shortcuts described below refer to the United States keyboard layout. Keys on other keyboard layouts may not correspond exactly to the keys on a U.S. keyboard.

In the tables below, the keys that you press are separated by a plus sign (+) to indicate that you must press two or more keys simultaneously.

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Notes and Comments

Learn More

For information about the efforts at Microsoft to create software and services that are accessible to everyone, see the Microsoft Accessibility Website.