Accessibility

This website has been designed to be as accessible to as many users as possible including:

  • People with disabilities who may use assistive technologies
  • Those with slower internet connections or less than state-of-the-art equipment
  • Rural and regional users
  • Those with non-PC internet devices including hand held devices and mobile phones

This website has been designed to first level compliance with the guidelines for accessibility of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), along with second level compliance in some areas. Consequently all pages are compliant with Priority 1 guidelines based on W3C Web Accessibility standards.

The accessibility features available on this site include:

  • Descriptive text for important links (title text) that can be read by assistive technologies
  • Descriptive text for images (alt text) that can be read by assistive technologies
  • Contrasting colour scheme that assists users with visual impairments
  • Use of optimised images and modern design coding standards to decrease load times

You can also request to acquire any documents available on this site in the following formats:

  • Printed hard-copy
  • Plain text file

Please contact us to make any such requests or to provide feedback on your experience using this site.

How to change text size

You can make the text larger or smaller on this site, or on any website you visit, by changing the settings on your computer.

Internet Explorer Select View menu, click on Text size and choose a size from the options Largest to Smallest.

FireFox Select View menu, click on Text size and choose either Increase or Decrease the font size.

Opera Select View menu, click on Zoom, and then select a size from the list.

Safari Select View menu and click Make Text Bigger to increase the font size or Make Text Smaller to decrease the font size.

Optimized for modern browsers

This site is designed to World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards and functions best in up-to-date browsers, such as Firefox, with javascript enabled. If you experience less than optimum functionality or design appearance it is likely you are using an older, non standards-compliant browser, which you should consider upgrading.