Accessibility
- Accessibility standards
- Accessibility information and tools
- Assistance using this website
Australian government departments and agencies are required by the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 to ensure that online information and services are accessible by people with disabilities.
For further information refer to the World Wide Web Access: Disability Discrimination Act Advisory Notes on the HREOC website.
The Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority website seeks to comply with these standards and has undergone significant redesign in order to meet the Government Online standards that relate to access for people with disabilities. The site has been reviewed for compliance with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0.
There may be some data on the website held in non-HTML formats. This data is in the process of being converted and is currently available to most environments supporting assistive technology. If, however, there is data that you require and it is in a format that you cannot access, or if you experience any other accessibility difficulties, please advise the Web Manager via the site Contact Us facility or by writing to:
Web Manager
Public Affairs
Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority
PO Box 6182
KINGSTON ACT 2604
Australia
Accessibility information and tools
Accessibility features and tools on this website include:
- expandable browser design that can be viewed at a variety of resolutions from (1024x768).
- resizable text which can be altered either through the browser settings or by stylesheet commands.
- tab navigation to links and content.
- jump links to allow you to skip repetitive content.
- a print stylesheet allows printing of page content only.
The website has been tested with several versions of commonly used browsers including Internet Explorer , Firefox, Opera & Mozilla.
Skipping repetitive content
To aid users of text readers that read the code on each web page, every page on this site offers four jump links in the code at the top of each page.
The first link will take you to the site's main navigation.
The second link will take you to the page content.
The third link will take you to the site search facility.
Making the text bigger
The fonts used on this website are relative and can be enlarged in your browser.
Using Internet Explorer, go to the menu item View > Text Size, then select the size you want.
Using Netscape, go to the menu item View > Text Zoom, then select the size you want.
If you have a wheel mouse, scrolling the centre wheel with enlarge or reduce the text size.
Changing the site colours and contrasts
To change the colour of the text and background your browser displays you need to find the 'Colours' option dialogue box.
Using Internet Explorer, go to the menu item Tools > Internet Options > 'colours', then uncheck Use windows 'colours' and select the colours you prefer.
Using Netscape, go to the menu item Edit > Preferences > 'colours' then select Use my chosen 'colours'
Image use
As far as practical, images have not been used to represent text on this website. The number of images on pages has been kept to a minimum, and those used have been optimised to shorten the loading time of each page.
Alternative text tags (Alt text) have also been used for all images on this site to convey information represented by the image and the credit and source information for the specific image.
Assistance using this Site
More information to assist you in using this site is available in the Help section.