Accessibility Statement

This is the official accessibility statement for the AGQTP in NSW iInternet site.

Access keys

Most browsers support jumping to specific links by typing keys defined on the web site. On Windows, you can press ALT + an access key; on Macintosh, you can press Control + an access key. Depending on your browser you may have to press enter afterwards or you may jump straight to the page.

All pages on this site define the following access keys:

• Access key 1 - Home page
• Access key 2 - Sitemap
• Access key 9 - Contact us
• Access key 0 - Accessibility statement

Standards compliance

• All pages on this site, with the exception of archived content/projects, are WCAG AAA approved, complying with all priority 1, and guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. This is a judgment call; many guidelines are intentionally vague and can not be tested automatically. We have reviewed all the guidelines and believe that all these pages are in compliance.
• All pages on this site, with the exception of some archived content, are Disability Discrimination Act approved, complying with all of the Australian Federal Government guidelines. Again, a judgment call. We have reviewed all the guidelines and believe that all these pages are in compliance.
• All pages on this site, with the exception of some archived content validate as XHTML 1.1. This is not a judgment call; a program can determine with 100% accuracy whether a page is valid XHTML.
• All the style sheets used validate as CSS2. This is not a judgment call; a program can determine with 100% accuracy whether a stylesheet syntax is valid.
• All pages on this site use structured semantic markup. H1 tags are used for main titles, H2 tags for subtitles. For example, on this page, JAWS users can skip to the next section within the accessibility statement by pressing ALT+INSERT+2.

Links

• Many links have title attributes which describe the link in greater detail, unless the text of the link already fully describes the target (such as the headline of an article).
• Links are written to make sense out of context.

Images

• All content images used in this site include descriptive ALT attributes. Purely decorative graphics include null ALT attributes.
• Complex images include LONGDESC attributes or inline descriptions to explain the significance of each image to non-visual readers.

Visual design

• This site uses cascading style sheets for visual layout.
• This site uses only relative font sizes, compatible with the user-specified "text size" option in visual browsers.
• If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets at all, the content of each page is still readable.
• If you decide to print out any of this website the page will automatically transform to a printable version, removing the navigation bar and making several other changes so the printed format is more readable.

Accessibility references

• W3 accessibility guidelines, which explains the reasons behind each guideline.
• W3 accessibility techniques, which explains how to implement each guideline.
• W3 accessibility checklist, a busy developer's guide to accessibility.
• Australian Disability Discrimination Act.

Accessibility software

• We recommend that you use a browser such as Mozilla's Firefox which provides up to date support for web standards.

If any issues or viewing errors with current or previous projects arrise, please contact us via emial at: rod.n.mcleod@det.nsw.edu.au