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Accessibility

Accessibility and Access Keys

This site employs many features to make information more accessible:

• All images have text alternates (ALT attributes)
• Pages are organized to be fully functional, even with javascript and CSS turned off
• All text uses relative font sizes so text can be enlarged or reduced using the text size options available in visual browsers (see instructions below)
• The site can be navigated without the use of a mouse (see instructions below)
• Page formatting is done with CSS not tables, and image-replacement techniques have been used extensively to ensure that the semantic structure of the information is preserved
• This site follows World Wide Web and NZ E-Government accessibility guidelines

Using this site without a mouse

How to Activate the Access Keys

Use of text on this site

Most navigation elements are either plain text, or graphic-replaced text. We have provided text alternatives to graphics on the site.

Those with poor sight may be able to increase the size of the text on screen. The procedure for doing so differs from one browser to the next.

The table below outlines the procedure for some popular browsers. If your browser does not appear in the table the following guidelines may be of assistance: In general, looking under the "View" selection on the main menu, you should find an option called "Text Zoom" or "Text Magnification" or "Text Size" or "Font Size". From that point it should be relatively simple to find and select an additional sub menu option that adjusts the text size to accomodate your needs.

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