We are committed to assisting people with disabilities to access this website. We make every reasonable effort to ensure that, as a minimum, this website attains level AA conformance with the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.

In addition this website also conforms to the Victorian Government's Accessibility Standard.

• "Skip to navigation" and "Skip to content" links have been provided at the top of each page. Users using screen readers (screen magnifiers or speech browsers), using a small screen resolution or the keyboard, are able to go directly to the navigation menu or directly to the content.
• If you are a keyboard user you can use the Tab key to move through the page navigation. We have applied a logical tab order to make it easier to navigate this website.
• Navigation is not dependent upon the use of Javascript. Javascript can be turned off and users are still able to use the navigation menu.
• Users do not need to use the flyout menus to access the navigation menu. By clicking on an item within the navigation menu, users will be linked to a page providing access to the same links and information.

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) have been used to create consistent visual layout within this website. This website will display correctly and functionally work in browsers which support CSS, including Internet Explorer 6 and 7, Firefox 1 and 2, Netscape 7 and 8, and Safari 1

Where images are used for navigation, or are intended to convey information, a description of the image has been provided within the alt tag of the image. However purely images used only for decoration have blank alt tags.

All fonts within this website use relative font sizing. The user is able to use browser based 'text size' menu options to increase the size of the text on the page to make pages easier to read.

There are also buttons on every page of the website that allow you to increase or decrease the font size. To use them you need to have Javascript turned on. However, if you don’t have Javascript, you can still use your browser’s menu options.

The pages in this website are structured using properly ordered headers.

This is done to aid legibility and to allow users to skim the main parts of the page. For instance some browsers can list all the headers on a page, or navigate directly to the next or previous header.

The label tag associates text with a form field. This benefits screen readers, as screen readers can read out the name of the field that a user has selected. This is also of benefit to web browsers, as when text of a label is clicked, the associated form field is brought into focus, which increases general usability.

• Tab indexing. As with all pages in this website, navigation of forms with the keyboard can be done by tabbing through the form's fields in the correct order.
• Form Validation. If a form is submitted with empty fields, the error message returned clearly informs the user of missing information.

Tables are only used for the display of tabular data. Headers have been associated with each row and column to aid screen readers and speech browsers.