Extreme Retrofit:

NCPR Online has grown up over the years around a shell that was developed before standards for accessibility were well established. It's sort of like the brain--the monkey brain is still in there, and buried under that the lizard brain--or like my house, which rambles out over several crawl spaces tacked on by various generations of the rural poor. If you run one of our pages through verification software, a sea of red flags is partially obscured by greasy smoke. As part of the Disability Matters Sound Partnership series debuting in the coming week on air, NCPR Online will begin the process of redesigning the main website to conform to the latest standards for accessibility to the visually-impaired. We will begin with pages related to the series itself, then branch out to eventually bring the whole site up to par. In the interim, we'll try to keep the noise and construction debris down to a minimum.