Defence endeavours to make its web content as accessible as possible to the widest audience. This includes those users who use assistive technology or accessibility features. By adhering to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.0 guidelines for accessible web design, we acknowledge the diversity of communication methods, available technologies and abilities of web-users in the community.
If you are having difficulties accessing anything on this site you can contact us using the contact form, or you call the switch number and we will do our best to fulfil your request.
Some commonly used browsers require different settings to allow users to make website more viewable. Pointers on how to make viewing websites more pleasant are found at the Media Access Australia (MAA) website - http://mediaaccess.org.au/online-media/web-browsers. The MAA website has information and links to other websites that provide methods on altering text size, setting defaults for popular browsers and other tools.
Here are some ways to change text size:
For your operating system:
Windows XP (Microsoft) - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308978
Windows 7 (Microsoft) - http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/Make-the-text-on-your-screen-larger-or-smaller
Mac OS (Apple) - http://www.apple.com/accessibility/macosx/vision.html
For your web browser only:
Internet Explorer (Microsoft) - http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/Change-webpage-text-size-in-Internet-Explorer
Firefox (Mozilla) - http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/font-size-and-zoom-increase-size-of-web-pages?redirectlocale=en-US&redirectslug=Text+Zoom
Safari (Apple) - http://www.apple.com/safari/features.html#accessibility
Our website has been responsively designed. It has been designed in such a way that the site responds to various screen sizes to fit. You can switch to full website view down in the footer if required.
When a page is printed we have tried to provide it as an optimised version by removing navigation, background colours and images. This results in a printed page that has relevant content and is suitable for most printers.
Navigating a website can be achieved without a mouse by using the tab key, providing the tab order of the site and the pages is set in a logical manner.
SELECT "Can I use the keyboard to surf the web?" - http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Internet-Explorer-accessibility-options#
Here are some browser tools which may assist:
Assistive Technology Products (Microsoft) - http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=165634
As this site is updated we are endeavouring to add appropriate and meaningful tags to links, images and tables within this site.
SELECT "How can I improve the way Internet Explorer works with my screen reader or voice recognition software?" - http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Internet-Explorer-accessibility-options
Defence has many users across both the Intranet (DRN) and the Internet (WWW) who read PDF documents through various browsers.
A List of PDF readers is available from the Australian Government Web Guide website, along with other information on why PDF documents are used and accessibility issues.
