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  About the video: Watch the using Cynthia™ video. This video will walk you through submitting a page to check its accessibility and explain in detail the meaning of each field in the form.

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Requirements
You must have Windows media player 6.4 or greater in order to view captioning.  If you do not have Windows Media Player, you may download it from the Windows Media site.

Preparing this video for the Web
This video was edited, formatted and resized using Microsoft Movie Maker.  Captioning added using Hi-Caption generated SAMI files.

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Next, you need to configure Windows Media Player to show the captioning.

For Windows Media Player 7.0/7.1/8.0:

1. Click on the Show Equalizer Settings button.  See item 1 in picture below.
2. Cycle through the equalizer settings until the captioning text appears.  See item 2 in picture below.
3. Captioning will appear in the block below the video.   See item 3 in picture below.

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The Cynthia Says portal is a joint Education and Outreach project of ICDRI, The Internet Society Disability and Special Needs Chapter and HiSoftware

Using Cynthia is easy. Enter your page to test. This is a required value.

Select your Report Mode: Section 508 (which is required for US Federal agencies, or WCAG 1.0 Priority 1, Priority 1,2, Priority 1,2,3 which are based on the World Wide Web Consortium standards.

If you are interested in just Priority 1 and are not testing for Priority 2 or 3, we still recommend that you test priority 2 and 3 for the educational value.

If you want to test priority 2 and 3, but do not want to be told that you fail for those checkpoints, you can check off the Do not fail for Priority 2 and 3 errors checkbox, and simply have the report warn you for priority 2 and 3 failures, versus failing the page!

The Alternative Text Quality report is a report that looks at the page for some common authoring tool errors or alt text creation errors. If you select this report you will also get this information included with your results.

If your page has failures, you can check to include the source code of the page in order to assist with locating the failing code.

Emulate this Browser - This is specifically important for dynamic content. By default the Cynthia 1.0 Agent is selected. If your page displays different content for different browsers you will want to test for different browser User agent strings.

When a web browser or other type of user agent submits a request for a page from a web server, part of the request from the browser includes information about itself, including the name of the agent, its version, etc.

In most cases, the web server returns a valid web page to the agent or web browser.

Some web developers write web pages with different content for different web browsers. While the newest Web browsers support this content, the information must also be accessible to users with older browsers.

Submit the form by using the "Test your site" button!

After a few seconds, the report will appear in your browser.

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