Accessibility

Accessibility Standards

Australian government departments and agencies are required by the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 to ensure that online information and services are accessible by people with disabilities.

For further information refer to the World Wide Web Access: Disability Discrimination Act Advisory Notes on the HREOC website.

This website seeks to comply with these standards and has undergone significant redesign in order to meet the Government Online standards that relate to access for people with disabilities. The site has been reviewed for compliance with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0.

If you encounter any problems while using this website, or find that content is inaccessible, please tell us by contacting the Web Administrator through the Technical Support form or by writing to:

Web Administrator
Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
PO Box 6500
CANBERRA ACT 2600

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Accessibility Information and Tools

Accessibility features and tools on this website include:

  • expandable browser design that can be viewed at a variety of resolutions from (800x600) to (1024x768).
  • resizable text which can be altered either through the browser settings or by stylesheet commands.
  • tab navigation to links and content.
  • jump links to allow you to skip repetitive content.
  • a print stylesheet allows printing of page content only.

The website has been tested with several versions of commonly used browsers including Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera & Mozilla.

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Skipping Repetitive Content

To aid users of text readers that read the code on each web page, every page on this site offers four jump links in the code at the top of each page.

  1. The first link will take you to the site's main navigation bar. (left of each page)
  2. The second link will take you to the page content.
  3. The third link will take you to the site search facility.

Making the text bigger

  • Using Internet Explorer, go to the menu item View > Text Size, then select the size you want
  • Using Netscape, go to the menu item View > Text Zoom, then select the size you want

Changing the site colours and contrasts

To change the colour of the text and background your browser displays you need to find the 'Colors' option dialogue box.

  • Using Internet Explorer, go to the menu item Tools > Internet Options > Colors, then uncheck Use windows colors and select the colours you prefer.
  • Using Netscape, go to the menu item Edit > Preferences > Colors then select Use my chosen colors.

Image use

As far as practical, images have not been used to represent text on this website. The number of images on pages has been kept to a minimum, and those used have been optimised to shorten the loading time of each page.

Alternative text tags (Alt text) have also been used for all images on this site to convey information represented by the image and the credit and source information for the specific image.

Media use

This site uses audio and video files in various formats. Whenever possible a full text transcript (HTML) of the content of these files is also provided as a link with the audio/video file.

If you require assistance with any media files available on this site, then please contact the Web Administrator through the Technical Support form.