Accessibility Statement - Florida Department of State

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Our websites are currently under review and redesign if necessary to make sure that they meet or exceed the requirements of聽<a rel="noopener" href="http://www.access-board.gov/508.htm" target="_blank" title="Section 508 Information - open new windows">Section 508</a>聽of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.</strong></p> <p>Many of our web pages currently meet the Section 508 accessibility standards as well as the聽W3C's聽<a rel="noopener" href="https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/wcag/" target="_blank" title="Web Content accessibility Guidelines - open new windows">Web Content accessibility Guidelines</a>聽priority 1 requirements. Furthermore, the Department of State continues to work on making all web pages accessible to its users.</p> <p>Thank you for your patience through this redesign process. If you have any comments or suggestions for improvement, please contact the webmaster at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#4c3b292e212d3f38293e0c28233f623f382d3829622a2062393f" title="Contact the Webmaster"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="8dfae8efe0ecfef9e8ffcde9e2fea3fef9ecf9e8a3ebe1a3f8fe">[email protected]</span></a>.</p> <h2>Adobe Acrobat PDF Files聽<img style="width: 19px; height: 16px;" src="/media/8143/pdfpic.gif" alt="Some description" rel="19,16" /></h2> <p>Many of the documents on the Florida Department of State website are in HTML or ASCII formats. These formats are generally accessible to people who use screen readers. We also have a large number of documents in PDF Format.</p> <p>PDF format is used to preserve the content and layout of our hard copy publications. Publications in PDF can only be viewed and printed using the Adobe Acrobat Reader version 4.0 or higher. You can download and get help using the Acrobat Reader at the聽<a rel="noopener" href="http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html" target="_blank" title="Download Adobe Acrobat Viewer - open new windows">Adobe Systems, Inc.</a>聽site. The downloadable Acrobat Reader software is available at NO CHARGE from Adobe.</p> <p>People using screen-reading devices generally are unable to read documents directly in PDF format unless they have an accessibility plug-in installed on their system along with the Adobe Acrobat Reader. This plug-in is available at NO CHARGE from Adobe. Adobe also has online tools that will convert PDF files to HTML on request. To get the plug-in and latest news about Adobe's accessibility tools and services, visit the聽<a rel="noopener" href="http://www.adobe.com/downloads/" target="_blank" title="Adobe downloads - open new windows">Adobe Downloads</a>聽site.</p> <h2>PowerPoint聽<img style="width: 16px; height: 16px;" src="/media/8144/pptlogo.jpg" alt="Some description" rel="16,16" />聽and Word聽<img style="width: 15px; height: 15px;" src="/media/8145/wordlogo.gif" alt="Some description" rel="15,15" />聽Files</h2> <p>You can view our online publications that are in PPT format if you have any version of PowerPoint installed on your computer.</p> <p>You can view publications in DOC format if you have Word 2007 or higher installed on your computer. Word documents can also be viewed with many other word processing software programs.</p> <h2>Style Sheets</h2> <p>Some of our web sites use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for page layout and text formatting. By using relative and adjustable font sizes, users are able to set the text size to better suit their needs. This feature is not currently available on all Secretary of State and division pages, but聽we are working to update existing pages. All new pages will have this feature.</p>  </div> <div class="sidebar col-md-4"> </div> </div> </div> <div id="footer"> <div class="container"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-8"> <p class="logo state-seal"><img src="/images/seal.png" alt="Florida State Seal"></p> <p class="officials"> Ron DeSantis, Governor<br> Cord Byrd, Secretary of State </p> <ul class="list-inline utility-links" style="clear:left;"> <li><a href="/privacy-policy/">Privacy Policy</a></li> <li><a href="/accessibility/">Accessibility</a></li> <li><a href="/site-map/">Site Map</a></li> </ul> <p class="lead questions">Questions or comments? <a href="/contact-us/">Contact Us </a> <br /> <a href="http://dos.myflorida.com/offices/general-counsel/public-records-requests/">Submit a public records request.</a> </p> <p class="disclaimer">Under Florida law, e-mail addresses are public records. 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