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Any material on this server may include technical inaccuracies or typographical errors. THE CONTENT PROVIDED ON THIS SERVER IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, WARRANTIES OF TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. NO ADVICE OR CONTENT GIVEN BY UPPER GRAND DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD., ITS AFFILIATES OR THEIR RESPECTIVE EMPLOYEES SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY. NEITHER UPPER GRAND DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD NOR ITS AFFILIATES WARRANT THAT THE CONTENT ON THIS SERVER OR ON THE INTERNET GENERALLY WILL BE UNINTERRUPTIBLE OR ERROR FREE OR THAT ANY CONTENT, SOFTWARE OR OTHER MATERIAL ACCESSIBLE FROM THIS SERVER IS FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS.
THE USER OF THIS SITE ASSUMES ALL RESPONSIBILITY AND RISK FOR THE USE OF THIS SERVER AND THE INTERNET GENERALLY. UPPER GRAND DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD AND ITS AFFILIATES DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, REPRESENTATIONS OR ENDORSEMENTS, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, WITH REGARD TO THE CONTENT, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE DOCUMENTATION AND RELATED GRAPHICS, ACCESSED FROM, OR VIA, THIS SERVER OR THE INTERNET, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. Upper Grand District School Board DOES NOT ASSUME ANY LEGAL LIABILITY OR RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, OR USEFULNESS OF ANY CONTENT, APPARATUS, PRODUCT OR PROCESS DISCLOSED ON THE SERVER OR OTHER MATERIAL ACCESSIBLE FROM THE SERVER. IN NO EVENT SHALL UPPER GRAND DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THE CONTENT, THIS SERVER OR THE INTERNET GENERALLY.
Upper Grand District School Board is under no obligation to monitor the content or any other information residing on or transmitted to this server. Anyone using this server agrees that Upper Grand District School Board may monitor the server contents periodically to comply with any necessary laws or governmental requests and to operate the server properly or to protect itself and its users.
Upper Grand District School Board reserves the right to modify, reject or eliminate any information residing on or transmitted to its server that it, in its sole discretion, believes is unacceptable. Unauthorized use of this site or the network infrastructure and/or data display by a person or entity that is not the authorized user of the account is illegal and Upper Grand District School Board or its affiliates reserves the right to take legal action.
You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless Upper Grand District School Board., its employees, directors, officers, agents, business partners, affiliates, contractors, distribution partners, volunteers and representatives from and against any and all third party claims, demands, liabilities, costs or expenses, including attorney's fees and costs, arising from, or related to, any breach by you of any of these terms and conditions or applicable law.
This document shall be construed in accordance with the laws of the Province of Ontario except for trademark and copyright matters governed by the federal laws of Canada. Guelph, Ontario, Canada shall be the venue of record for any dispute or hearing.
This web site has been designed and developed with consideration to those with limited connection speed and who are using assistive devices.
All placement and visual elements are controlled by a central Cascading Style Sheet (CSS). Additionally, our pages also utilize a print style sheet so that the information contained on our site transfers to your desktop printer properly and with only the information needed on the printed page.
Select pages may also include aural or braille assistive commands.
The first link element on all pages is used to skip the browser to the menu and the second to the content. These are useful for those guests who access this site in a non visual or surf with alternative and assistive devices.
All links have title attributes which describe the link to those using assistive or alternate technologies. This description helps keep the link in context if it occurs out of order on the page.
We have also deployed tab indexes for mouseless navigation so that links follow in proper sequence.
Top-level menu items also have access key elements defined that function as keyboard shortcuts. How these are activated or whether they are supported is a function of your browser software. (FireFox utilizes ALT and the letter) Where access keys are used, the title text reveals the sequence to use.
Images include ALTernate text that are inline in any document. Those images that are deemed decorative only are called by the screen style sheet only or contain null value attributes.
Where images or graphs are used, "long text" descriptions are used either inline or from the long text page. These images are marked with the descriptive "D" link.
This site is written as simply as possible for the material presented to equalize access for individuals with learning disabilities.
We have included phonetic support and acronym tags where short-forms are encountered for the first time in a document.
Forms are fully accessible with proper labels and tab orders to minimize complexities while completing form blanks for those not using the site visually.
This site is created with standards-compliant XHTML 1.1 and XML. The minimum fall-back level for documents on this site is XHTML 1.0 Transitional.
This site meets or exceeds the WAI (Web Accessibility Initiative) Level AA (Double-A) as well as US Section 508 as defined by the Disabilities Act. Our sites are tested with both US and Canadian accessibility validators.
