Accessibility Statement
This website has been designed and implemented to be as accessible as possible. Development has taken into account the World Wide Web Consortium's Accessibility Initiative [link to W3C website], and Section Six of the New Zealand Government's Web Guidelines [link to E-Government website].
Standards Compliance
All pages on this site validate as HTML 4.01 Strict [link to W3C website]. All pages on this site use structured semantic markup. H1 elements are used for main titles, H2 elements for subsection titles. For example, on this page, JAWS users can skip to the next section within the accessibility statement by pressing ALT+INSERT+2.
Access Keys
Access keys are potentially useful for people who have difficulty using a mouse. This website uses the recommended allocation for New Zealand Government websites:
- 0 This Page
- 1 Home
- 9 Contact Information
- [ Skip to Beginning of Content
- / Go to govt.nz
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. You can adjust the size of the font through your browser's menu - "View" then "Text Size" (or something similar) - and adjust accordingly.
If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets at all, the content of each page is still readable.
Printing
This site uses a print stylesheet for printing purposes. This allows a page to be printed straight from the browser in a "print-friendly" manner. Only the main content from the page will be printed - the top banner and navigation links will not be printed.
Note that the print stylesheet will only be recognised in version 5 browsers and above.