ACCESSIBILITY POLICY

Introduction

This site is committed to ensuring this website can be accessed and used effectively by everyone. To demonstrate this commitment, we do our best to comply with the following web standards:

Bobby

Watchfire® Bobby 5.0 is a web accessibility testing tool designed to help expose barriers to accessibility and encourage compliance with existing accessibility guidelines.

W3C

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was created in October 1994 to lead the world wide web to its full potential by developing common protocols that promote its evolution and ensure its interoperability.

This also complies with W3C XHTML 1.0.

and adheres to the W3C CSS standard.

Web Browser Guidance

This site has been designed and tested to support a wide variety of web browsers and versions. However you may experience formatting problems on a small number of older browser versions and we therefore recommend that you use the latest available version of your particular web browser software. You can usually check which version you have from the 'About' option on your browser's 'Help' menu.

Screen Resolution

All the pages on this website have been designed to be viewed in a single screen width with any computers set for a screen resolution of 1024x768 or more.

Text size

If you find the text size on this website too small or too large, you can change the size of the text via your web browser.

If you are using Internet Explorer 5.0 or a more recent version, go to the menu at the top of the browser page and select View, from the list of options, select Text Size. You will see a side menu open up; select the size you wish to view the website in.

Printer Friendly pages

All pages throughout the site are printer friendly.

Useful accessibility links

• RNIB: designing accessible Web sites

• W3C Web Accessibility Initiative

• Disability Discrimination Act

• The Disability Rights Commission website