Accessibility

The department is committed to improving user experience and ensuring our websites are accessible to all users. 

This website is currently working on meeting Level AA success criteria of W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0. We will be taking a staged approach to ensure accessibility compliance across all our websites. 

The department continues to review and improve the accessibility of this website. If you have accessibility issues or feedback, please let us know by completing the feedback.

We will attempt to rectify the problem and provide you with the information you required in an alternative format. We are always interested in receiving feedback about your experience in accessing our online services and information.

Responsive design

Our websites are mobile-friendly and built for viewing on multiple platforms including desktop computers, laptops, tablets and smartphone devices. 

Accessibility tools

Many tools exist to help people with a disability access the internet. These tools are defined as either 'hardware' or 'software'.

Hardware

Various hardware tools can help people with disabilities to use a computer keyboard or mouse, for example:

• refreshable braille displays (External link) help blind people to read a computer screen line by line
• joysticks and trackballs (External link) help people with motor disabilities to use a computer mouse.

Alternative keyboards with limited keys can help people with motor disabilities to use a computer keyboard. These include keyboards manipulated by fingers (External link) and keyboards manipulated using a head-wand (External link)

Software

Software tools can also help users interact with computers in ways that best suit them.

Screen reader programs such as JAWs (External link) and Window-Eyes (External link) can convert a website into a braille display or convert it to audio for people who are blind, visually impaired or have dyslexia.

Screen magnifier programs magnify sections of a computer screen for people with vision impairments. See Windows Screen Magnifier (External link)

Oversized cursor software can help people with vision impairments use a computer cursor. See Biggy (External link) cursors.

On-screen keyboards (External link) combined with switching devices can help people with motor disabilities to use a computer keyboard.

Programs that slow down applications can assist people with motor disabilities. See CPU Killer (External link)

Browsers and operating systems

Your experience of this website may vary according to the capabilities of your browser, operating system or device.

The department actively supports browsers used by more than two per cent of our visitors. 

Given the wide range of systems and devices available, we do not actively test with browsers where the usage falls below two per cent of visitors. As a result, your experience of our  website may be variable on older browsers.

As a result, your experience of our  website may be variable on older browsers. For the best experience make sure you update your browser to the latest version.   

Supported browsers

• Chrome 44+
• Safari 9+
• Internet Explorer 11+
• Firefox 49+
• Edge 14+

Supported operating systems

• Windows 7+
• iOS 9.3+
• Android 6+
• MacOS 10+

Browser shortcuts

The following keyboard shortcut forms are used throughout the lists below: Ctrl=Control; Esc=Escape; Alt=Alternative; Del=Delete; UP, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT=Arrow keys.

Where available, the key combinations for Windows, Linux and Mac operating systems have been provided.

Acknowledgements

The information above has been sourced from:

• Multimedia Victoria
• the websites of the various commercial browsers.