Last Updated on Tuesday, 01 March 2011

The Department of Justice is committed to ensuring that people with disabilities can access this site and its information. This website is currently undergoing accessibility testing against the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, Version 2.0, Level A.

We are always interested in knowing about your experience of the accessibility of the Department of Justice site.

General Web Accessibility Information

There are many tools that people with a disability can use to assist to access the Internet. These tools are either hardware or software.

Hardware

These tools manipulate the keyboard or mouse, because the person with a disability cannot use them. Examples are:

• Refreshable Braille displays - A small Braille display that a blind person can use to read the screen line by line.
• Joysticks / Trackballs - Pointers that manipulate the mouse onscreen for people with motor disabilities.
• Alternative keyboards - Keyboards that have limited keys for people with motor disabilities. These include keyboards manipulated by fingers and keyboards manipulated using a head-wand.

Software

These tools change how a user interacts with the site. Examples are:

• Screen readers - Programs such as JAWS and Window-Eyes that convert a web site into a Braille display or read it in audio for people who are blind, visually impaired or have dyslexia.
• Screen Magnifiers - Programs that magnify sections of the screen for people with vision impairments. See Windows Screen Magnifier.
• Oversized cursors - Large cursors for people with vision impairments. See "Biggy" cursors.
• Onscreen keyboards - Keyboards for people with motor disabilities used in combination with switching devices. See On-screen keyboard.
• Programs that slow down applications for people with motor disabilities, for example CPU Killer (for Windows).

General Browser Shortcuts

The keyboard shortcuts provided below apply to Microsoft Internet Explorer, Opera and Firefox.

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.

Shortcuts for Internet Explorer

Details of shortcuts for various versions of Internet Explorer can be obtained from the Microsoft website.

Shortcuts for Opera

Source: http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/keyboard

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NOTE:

The display of this website in iE6 is not the intended format for delivery. Although we have aimed to make this site as cross browser compliant as possible, some users on iE6 with low screen resolutions may not have access to some of the usability functions and optimal online features like RSS subscriptions and dynamic navigation components.

For Support in Internet explorer 6.0, see Microsoft iE6 Home.

The homepage offers users these options and information specifically for ie6

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 Developing

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Accessibility Tutorials

Customize Internet Explorer 6 to meet your needs—increase accessibility by adjusting font size, changing toolbar settings, and more.
Acknowledgements

The information above has been sourced from:

* Multi Media Victoria
* the websites of the various commercial browsers.