Celebrating its 150th anniversary in 2007, the City of Anaheim is one of the nation's premier municipalities and California's 10th most populous city. Located in Orange County, California, 28 miles southeast of Los Angeles, Anaheim covers 50 square miles with more than 342,000 residents and 2,177 employees, and has established sister-city relationships with Mito, Japan and Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. The municipal corporation's annual budget is $1.297 billion. Anaheim supports a thriving business community with companies such as CKE Restaurants, Inc., L-3 Communications, Pacific Sunwear, and Disneyland Resort. Successful sport franchises including Angels Baseball, Anaheim Ducks, Anaheim Arsenal, the USA Men's National Volleyball Team call Anaheim home. Anaheim also boasts world-class meeting and entertainment venues with the Anaheim Convention Center, the largest on the west coast, Honda Center, The Grove of Anaheim and Angel Stadium of Anaheim. Anaheim is ranked one of the safest cities in the nation and annually welcomes millions of visitors to the city, truly making it where the world comes to live, work and play.
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Anaheim University is a pioneering online institution of higher learning. Its administrative offices are located in Anaheim, California. The University, through its state-of-the-art computer-mediated learning environment, provides opportunities for students around the globe to interact with the most renowned experts in their fields allowing them to both further their knowledge and advance their professional skills in a user-friendly and interactive environment. Anaheim University offers online degree, diploma and certificate programs in the areas of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), Business Administration and Sustainable Management.
Anaheim University subscribes to the theory of Lernfreiheit, the freedom to learn for all, regardless of circumstances. The University is currently conducting research into how the University's website can be improved for those who are either visually or hearing impaired, or for other students who may require assistive technology in order to enhance their learning experience. Residential on-campus sessions are held in buildings equipped with handicapped facilities.
Committed to meeting the educational needs of a diverse and global student body of mature professionals through academic programs of the highest quality and in line with our student-centered philosophy, Anaheim University seeks to make higher education accessible to qualified students worldwide through both online and on-campus study.
Anaheim University is using adaptive technologies to allow visitors to access Anaheim University website content. These technologies include a screen reader that allows people to make the letters on the page larger or smaller, change the screen color and contrast, and reads aloud the text on the screen. Full support for access keys is available, so that users can control reading using a keyboard following WCAG specifications. By using accesskeys, users can control both the screen reader and font size buttons.
Anaheim University's website is currently under construction and is being developed to include the following features for making Web content more accessible according to WCAG 2.0 (Section 508).
- Page navigation by keyboard - users don’t need to use a computer mouse to navigate through the relevant sections of the website. A keyboard will be enough.
- Skipping to the next Menu items is possible with the Tab key, so users can can quickly move through the page
- Avoidance of animated elements (for people suffering from epilepsy), stable graphics, and no garish animated effects
- Understandable links - the description of a link clearly indicates what it refers to
- High contrast mode: ensures optimal readability of the text ( Black/White Mode, Black/Yellow Mode, Yellow/Black Mode)
- Night mode - lets users avoid eyestrain
- Width switcher (fixed/fluid) adjusts the width of the screen to fit the user’s needs
- Font size switcher (3 degrees of font size, which are fixed as a percentage)
- A screen reader that reads aloud the text either of the entire page or selected portions of the page
Anaheim University was founded in Orange County, California in 1996. The University is accredited by the Accrediting Commission of the Distance Education and Training Council (DETC). The DETC is listed by the U.S. Department of Education as a nationally-recognized accrediting agency. Anaheim University and its programs have been examined and found to meet the educational and business ethics standards set by the DETC Accrediting Commission. The Accrediting Commission of the DETC is recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA).