Help

Our website is pretty simple to navigate.  There are some tips that are handy to know though.

1. You may notice an asterisk (*) beside some words.  These are links that will give you additional information when you move the mouse pointer over the link.  Other text links may have additional hover tip information when you move the mouse pointer over the link.
   
   
2. Accessibility:
   
   
   • We list phone numbers for several attractions or locations.  If you are deaf or hard of hearing, you can place calls via the Florida TTY Service at 1-800-833-7352 to access the service.
     
     You may also place calls via the Internet as a service provided by Sprint Communications. 
     
     
   • If you are not able to use a mouse, you can move from one link to another on a webpage by using the tab key.  If you need to use the right mouse button, keep in mind that you can do the equivalent of a right mouse click by pressing Shift F10 on the link (Windows).  If you have a "Windows" keyboard, you can press the "Options" button (next to Ctrl on the right hand side of the keyboard).  The options key shows a mouse pointer over a list.
     
     
   • The quick menu at the bottom will get you to major sections of the website (some pages have an additional topic menu on the left side).  Notice that each menu item at the bottom has one letter underlined.  The same letter may be used for more than one item.  Using the Alt key plus the letter will rotate through all choices for the letter.  When the one you want is bold and colored blue,* you can press the Enter key to go to that page.*
     
     
   • People with disabilities often use specialized browsers.  Some browsers have trouble when two separate links occur on consecutive lines.  The links at the bottom of the pages fit the scenario for causing confusion between the last one on the first line and the first one of the second line, therefore, a dot was added at the beginning and ends of the two lines of links.  The dots weren't needed at the beginning of the first line, nor at the end of the second line, and only one dot would have solved the problem, but that wouldn't have been symmetrical.
     
     
   • Persons with sight disabilities can have more control over the navigation process.  The website is partially structured/partially unstructured (links may go to the same page from more than one category).  Just like directories on the computer can be used for organization, the website is broken down into different sections. Even those sections have sub-categories.  You keep your perspective of the navigation levels because you get to see what you clicked on to get where you are.  Persons with sight disabilities that browse the website do not have that same freedom.  The blind use a different type of browser to surf the web; it reads the text out loud.  Keeping track of navigation is difficult, unless each page lists its place in the navigation tree, and in a consistent manner.  The additional code shows up just above the header statement on each page.  It lists the levels that rank higher than the current page.  Each level starts with Home and works its way down from there.  For example, this page is considered one level below the Home page so it lists only Home.  Some pages will have multiple links to the right of Home.  Each is a direct link to a specific level back up the navigation tree.  Special browsers can read this code out load to the blind so that they can keep a perspective of where they are.  You might also find it handy so give it try.
     
     
3. The Back link just under the graphic at the top of the page will return you to your last location on the web.  This has the same effect as clicking the back arrow on your browser window.  This may save you a few hand movements.  The same thing happens for most photographs or images when you view the enlarged version.  Simply click the image again to go back to the same location that you were before.
   
   
4. Many "Back" buttons that you see on websites are actually "forward" links that go to the page they "think" you came from.  Our Back buttons are actually a true back button, in that they work exactly like the Back button on the browser window.  This is especially helpful when viewing images as the enlarged image also works as a back button.  In most cases, you will click on a small image to see the enlarged view; after viewing the enlarged image, click on it to return.  Even if you accessed the enlarged image from the site map, when you click on the enlarged view, you would be returned back to the site map, exactly where you came from.  There is a back button at the bottom of each page.  Regardless of how much browsing you have done, if you want to "back" out of something, you can use the back buttons without worry that the browser's history will be accumulating.
   
   
5. We use the most common size of text (same as 90% of all websites).  Older people like text sizes larger; younger people want text smaller.  The website is not made for either extreme; we choose the average.  You can always change the text size to suit your preferences.  If you think any text is too small or too large, most browsers allow you to change the size of displayed text.  If you have a scroll wheel on your mouse, Internet Explorer and FireFox will allow you to change text sizes if you hold the Ctrl key down when rolling the mouse wheel.  If you do not see an instant change it could mean your system is slower or is maxed out on memory.  Continued rolling back and forth without waiting for the change to take effect will max out slower systems and cause them to hang!  Faster systems will see instant feedback.
   
   
6. Links that you have not visited yet are Blue. The blue links in the body of the text will turn to white with a tan background and be in bold when the mouse pointer is moved over the link.  Once the link has been visited, the link changes to deep pink.
   
   The blue links at the bottom will turn to Red and be in bold when the mouse pointer is moved over the link.  Once the link has been visited, the link changes to deep pink.
   
   The blue links at the left side of the page will turn to white with a tan background and be in bold when the mouse pointer is moved over the link.  Once the link has been visited, the link returns to blue.
   
   To implement some special features, some links don't follow the standard guidelines.
   
   Normally, while a link is being used (not supported by all browsers), the color will be a bold blue.  Some browsers will display the links with an underline, others will not.
   
   Some links do not change color at all; the logic being that the link is not an important one and that links normally being a different color can be a distraction from the message of the text.  Therefore, these links are only visible by moving the mouse pointer over the text.  Do not worry, as these are not important links; they are only there in case someone were to move the mouse pointer over the link.  When that happens a small hover tip will show up to give you additional information.
   
   A link may be for a different page, or a section of a different page or even the same page you are already on.  In the case where the link is on the same page, the link will already be Deep Pink.  If a link takes you to a page and the link does not take you to the top, you might consider scrolling to the top of the page after you read the information that the link took you to.  That way, you will know if there is something else you want to read on the same page (as its link will now be Deep Pink and you may think you have already visited the entire page).  Visit the Site Map to see if there are any pages you missed.  Keep in mind that links sometimes fail to change in color even after visiting.  Links change color as a feature of the browser.  Older browsers do worst than newer browsers.  Even the latest browsers may fail to change the color.  The amount of memory available at the time can affect things as well.   Regardless of how much memory you have, the memory may already be allocated for some other purpose so browsers do not always change the color as expected.
   
   
7. If you notice a link is in italics, it is to an external website.  We are not responsible for the content on other websites.
   
   
8. Browser Differences It is our wish that the website look the same regardless of which web browser you use.  We have attempted to implement technology that will ensure that happening, however, making it look exactly the same regardless of browser is next to impossible due to some differences being extreme.  Internet Explorer is the most popular browser on the web, and therefore, it has higher priority when we make decisions on how a page should look.  Mozilla is the second most popular browser (a continuation of Netscape and taking over the second place position previously held by Netscape), and always has had differences between what it displays and what Internet Explorer displays for the same pages.  For example, Netscape/Mozilla typically displayed text one size smaller than Internet Explorer.  Some websites (as we did) attempted to compensate to ensure that Netscape/Mozilla viewers saw text sizes the same as Internet Explorer users.  This was accomplished by taking advantage of features of the HTML standard that Internet Explorer supported but Netscape/Mozilla did not.  These "tricks" work only because the browsers supported different features, but these "work-arounds" cannot be guaranteed to work in the future.  Netscape is no longer being developed, but its footsteps are being followed by the Mozilla browser, and the advanced version being FireFox, all functioning nearly identical to Netscape.  The same "trick" used to make text sizes match worked in these browsers as well.  Starting with Mozilla version 1.7, some parts of the trick didn't work since Mozilla started supporting more of the standard.  Due to the complexities of attempting to keep up with every variant of browser, we had rather concentrate on the web content instead.  We will assume that if you prefer to use a particular browser, then you accept the fact that there are differences.
   
   
9. If you use Channel definitions for Internet Explorer, you can use the link. 
   
   
10. Ed Note: The English language is a constantly changing thing and as such, opinions differ on many parts of it.  One area is compound words, and technology words get affected much faster than others.  As words change from two words to hyphenated words to compound words, there are overlapping opinions, even with the same person.  As the webteam leader, I have flip-flopped on whether it is website or web site, webpage or web page, search engine or searchengine.  This website (or web site) is an example of contradictions in some cases.  When reading, please overlook the one you don't like; next update, we might be agreeing with you.
    
    
11. There are combinations of words that often get confused with being compound words when in fact they are not.  These I am not confused about and hate seeing them misused.  For example, login vs. log in.  It depends on what is being said.  The word login is a noun; you may have a login, or a login process but you do not login to a computer.  Instead, you log in to a computer.  The rule is simple: when used as a verb, use two words; when referring to the thing, use one word.  The same thing occurs with setup vs. set up.  There are other examples as well.  Once you understand the rule, they will start to pop out at you, and soon you will be as irritated by the misuse as I am.
    
    
12. You should read the About page for additional information.