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Physics Classroom is making strides to make our site accessible to everyone, and features many accessibility features.

Our site contains 6 navigation areas. The Primary, Secondary, and Page Level navigations have a screen reader version of their nav structure that allows using the left and right keys to navigate sibling navigation items, and up or down keys to navigate parent or child navigation items. The others can be navigated using tabs.

Within the main content, we leverage headers to provide in page or in tool navigation.

Although we are still rebuilding our content to leverage these tools, our images should have both short and verbose descriptions, the later describing in great detail the image for those who cannot see. Any formulas found within the images are often in the image figure below the image.

Equations and formulas are rendered using MathJax, which has both verbal, braille (including nemath braille), and keyboard navigation within them. Learn how to configure and leverage this for various screen readers on our Equation Navigation Page.

While not every area of Physics Classroom is usable purely from keyboard and screen reader, we are committed to continue work on making this possible. If you have questions or need additional help, please use this link to contact us .

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The AAPT Photo Contest

The American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) runs an annual high school physics photo contest. The contest is open to all high school students in grades 9-12. There are several categories in the contest - including Natural Photos, Contrived Photos, and Photos with Multiple Images. The official description of the contest, the contest rules, the entry forms and photos from past winners can be found online at the AAPT website.

The Physics Classroom encourages high school physics teachers to promote the event among their classes. Consider offerring students extra credit or a homework pass for particpating in the contest. Or simply make it an assignment that all students participate in. Since only 15 photos per school are allowed to be entered, you could conduct a local contest and the top 15 winners could be submitted. Consider uploading your students' photos to your Flickr photostream and then adding them to The Physics Classroom Flickr Group. Your students might enjoy seeing their photos appear as thumbnails within the various pages of The Photo Gallery.

Visit AAPT Photo Contest page.

 

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