What is Accessibility?

Accessibility involves making web pages more accessible to those with impaired vision (includes blindness and colour blindness), mobility and hearing impairments. Increasingly governments around the world are legislating to ensure that the web becomes more accessible to those with various impairments.

In May 1999 the World Wide Web (W3C) released a document entitled 'Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0' for the primary goal of promoting accessibility.

Governance and Planning Services (G&PS) has done it's best to ensure that our templates are compliant with these specified guidelines.

The G&PS website has been checked for its accessibility using the 'bobby' accessibility engine and has achieved the ECU standard of a Level 'A' rating.

If you feel that any component of this site does not meet the requirements please contact us and we will attempt to remedy the problem.

Browsers

The G&PS templates has been adequately tested using ECU recommended base level web browsers on both Windows and Macintosh platforms, they are:

Windows

• Netscape 7 and later
• Mozilla 1.x and later
• Mozilla Firefox

Macintosh (OS X)

• Apple Safari 2.04 and later
• Mozilla 1.x and later
• Mozilla Firefox
• Camino

Document Format

Most documents loaded on the G&PS website will be in PDF format. You can download free the Adobe Acrobat Reader software for most platforms from www.adobe.com and selecting "Free Adobe Reader" from their menu.