Accessibility Statement

The Department of Education and Early Childhood Development is committed to ensuring that departmental websites are accessible to everyone. If you have any questions or suggestions regarding the accessibility of this site, please contact the department.

Standards compliance

  • All pages on this site follow priorities 1 & 2 guidelines and some priority 3 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
  • All pages on this site validate as XHTML 1.0 Strict.

Access Keys

Access keys often clash with keys set aside for use with other User Agents (i.e. assistive technology). For this reason, accesskeys have not been defined for this site.

Images

  • Unless they are purely decorative items, all images used on this web site have suitable alt attributes.
  • Content is both usable and accessible with images disabled.

Links

  • All links to external sites contain a title attribute with the text "External site".
  • At the top of every document is a Skip to content link which skips directly to the main section of the page (the content).

Forms

  • All form controls are appropriately and explicitly labeled.

Scripts

  • Content of this web site is usable without JavaScript support.

Pop up Windows

  • Pop up windows are not used on this site.

Visual design

  • This site uses cascading style sheets for visual layout.
  • This site uses only relative font sizes, compatible with the user-specified "text size" option in visual browsers.
  • If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets at all, the content of each page is still readable.
  • Any information conveyed through the use of color is also available without color (i.e. text based).

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