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About WCDD The Wisconsin Council on Developmental Disabilities (WCDD) is a statewide advocacy organization that is dedicated to improving the independence, productivity and integration of people with developmental disabilities into our communities. The Wisconsin Council on Developmental Disabilities (WCDD) listens and learns from people with developmental disabilities and their families about their concerns and issues affecting their lives. The Council develops a State Plan to address these concerns and issues with activities and initiatives. The Council also educates and advises the Governor, legislators, and other decision-makers about these issues. 3) Does WCDD work with individuals or organizations? WCDD does not provide direct services to individuals or organizations. WCDD is a statewide advocacy organization that is dedicated to promoting systems change for people with developmental disabilities. For example, WCDD has helped to initiate, develop and support the Community Integration Program (CIP), the Community Options Program (COP), the Family Support Program, the Birth to Three Program. More recently, WCDD has been a leader in developing housing opportunities for people with disabilities, in reforming the SSI/C-Supp benefit under W-2, and in developing supported parenting programs in the state. 4) I, or someone in my family has a developmental disability. What can WCDD do for me? Although WCDD does not provide direct services to individuals or families, staff are frequently aware of programs, services, and supports in your area that might be of assistance to you. Please contact us and we will try to refer you to an appropriate form of help. Or you may find one of our publications useful. Topics include providing home health care for children, visiting the doctor, sexual education and others. Many of the these are free while some have a small fee. Please also check our links page for appropriate references. 5) Can I become a member of the Council? The Council is always looking for dedicated and active people who wish to serve. Any member of the public who has a desire to be appointed to the Council should submit a letter of intent or introduction and a resume to the Governor's office. The WCDD is in particular need of people with developmental disabilities to serve. 6) Can I attend a Council meeting? The public is invited to attend any Council meeting. All Council meetings are subject to the open meeting law. The Council meets six times per year, every other month, starting in January. 7) Where does WCDD receive its funding to operate? The Wisconsin Council on Developmental Disabilities receives its funding from the federal government as part of the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of of Rights Act (Developmental Disabilities Act), P.L. 104-183. The DAWN stands for Disability Advocates: Wisconsin Network. It is an action e-mail network comprised of people with disabilities, family members, advocates, service providers and others who are interested in working on issues affecting people with disabilities. Please sign-up and become a member of the network. 9) Does the Council have any publications reflecting their work? The Council publishes a quarterly newsletter, The Spotlight, as well as many other publications. Some of the publications cover general disability information, others cover topics such as supported parenting, sexuality education, and community supported living. About our web site1) What is the "skip nav" link and why is it on your web pages?The "skip nav link" on each page is just one of many features of our web site designed to ensure that our electronic information is available to the widest possible audience in the most efficient and accessible way. This link makes it possible for people who view the web with alternative user agents, such as J.A.W.S., to skip the repeated navigational elements on each page and go straight to the specific content. 2) What are the buttons on the bottom of each page?Another accessibility feature of our web site, these buttons are used to directly link and verify that our web pages meet current design criteria. Go ahead and try them. Please let us know if we fall short on any of our declared pages. The first button links our web site directly to the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) site and validates the html code on each of WCDD's web pages to HTML 4.01, our declared standard. This is the first step in writing accessible web pages. The second button indicates a claim by our web pages of conformance to level Double-A of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0, including all Priority 1 and Priority 2 checkpoints defined in the Guidelines. The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 explain how to make web content accessible to people with disabilities. The third button links our site to Bobby. Bobby is a web-based tool that analyzes web pages for their accessibility to people with disabilities. CAST (Center for Applied Special Technology) offers Bobby as a free public service to further its mission to expand opportunities for people with disabilities through the innovative use of computer technology. The last button links our site to WDG, the Web Design Group. The Web Design Group was founded to promote the creation of non-browser-specific, non-resolution-specific, creative and informative sites that are accessible to all users worldwide. 3) What techniques does wcdd.org use to make our site accessible to all users?wcdd.org incorporates many features and technologies in a concerted effort to achieve web site accessibility for all persons. Among these are use of the "access key" keyboard feature to jump straight to important links. The invocation of access keys depends on the underlying system. For instance, on machines running MS Windows, one generally has to press the "alt" key in addition to the access key. On Apple systems, one generally has to press the "cmd" key in addition to the access key. And to our Netscape users, please understand that Netscape does not offer support of many of our accessibility features until version 6.0.The general access keys for wcdd.org are:
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