Accessibility
The City of Monash website has been designed and developed to be accessibile for all users, including people with colour deficiency or other visual impairments, or other disabilities; physical or otherwise.
The site complies with the 'Accessibility Guidelines' as advised by the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission. The guidelines are aimed at ensuring that people with disabilities, the aged, people with colour blindness, low literacy levels and those with technical constraints can use online resources.
Audio news are published on the site and service information in major languages is also available.
This website is compliant to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.0).
WCAG 2.0 is a technical standard developed under the Web Accessibility Initiative of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
For more information, or if you are having trouble accessing this site, please email mail@monash.vic.gov.au
Document Structure
Headers are used to convey the structure of a document. The row and column headers are identified in data tables.
Style sheets have been used to control layout and presentation, however the document may also be read without style sheets.
Fonts
Relative units have been used for the style sheet font property values.
Images
Each graphic image or graphical representations of text has alternative text, ie. a short or long description.
Colour
All information conveyed with full colour is also available without using certain colours.
This web site has been designed bearing in mind that there are users with colour deficiency. We have catered for the most common form of colour deficiency, such as Protanomalia (red weakness) and Deuteranomalia (green weakness).
Navigation
Keyboard Navigation
All major pages are accessible through the custom keyboard shortcuts developed for this site.
The TAB key can be used to move between other navigation links.
Acces Keys
- [ H ] Home page
- [ C ] Contact us
- [ A ] Help and Accessibility
- [ M ] Site Map
How to use Acces Keys
- Mozilla Firefox 2 and 3 on Windows and Linux: hold Alt + Shift, press access key
- Mozilla Firefox on Mac OS X: hold Ctrl, press access key
- Internet Explorer 7: hold Alt + Shift, press access key
- Internet Explorer 8: hold Alt, press access key (to follow a link, then press ? Enter)
- Opera (all platforms): press Shift + Esc, then press access key (Shift-Esc will display the list of choices)
- Google Chrome: hold Alt, press access key
- Google Chrome on Linux: hold Alt + Shift, press access key
- Google Chrome on Mac OS X: hold Ctrl + Alt, press access key
- Safari on Windows: hold Alt, press access key
Logical event handlers, which are device-dependent (on mouse over), are used only for presentation features, which aren't as important, or a redundant link is created.
Links
Related links have been grouped and the way to bypass the group is provided ('Skip Navigation' links for the screen readers).
For the client-side image map, redundant text links are provided.
Java Script
The site functions without the use of JavaScript (exception: "Monash Maps", "Create a Map", "Victorian Business Information" and the Monash Council 'search box', powered by Google).
Viewing and Downloading PDF Files
Some documents within the site, such as application forms, permits or Council Reports, are saved in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader Software installed on your computer to be able to read or print these brochures.
The Acrobat Reader can be downloaded for free at the Adobe website.
Problems
If you are having any difficulties please email us mail@monash.vic.gov.au.
Last updated: 29 June 2011
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