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Accessibility
This site is produced by the Department of Corrective Services. It aims to provide
comprehensive information about the Department and its services.
This website has been designed to be as accessible to as many users as possible, including:
- people with disabilities who may use assistive technologies
- those with slower internet connections
- rural and regional users.
The accessibility features available on this site include:
- instructions for resizing text
- skip links and a logical tab order to navigate using assistive technologies
- text-only page
- printer-friendly page.
Please note that you can also request to acquire any documents available on the website by
using the Contact Us form in the following formats:
- printed/hard-copy
- documents to be made available in an alternative format such as plain text file.
This page covers four important guides to using this website in an effort to improve accessibility:
- Text resizing
- how to resize the text size viewed on screen within the
browser to enhance readability,
- Using the site
- how to use the website and its features,
- Printer friendly
- how to print web pages from this website, and
- Plug-ins requirement
- how to install optional plug-ins to access some features
of this website.
TEXT RESIZING
You can make the text larger or smaller on this site, or on any website you visit by
changing the settings on your computer.
To check which version of Internet browser is installed on your machine:
- open your browser
- select Help from the top menu of your browser
- select About (followed by your browser name) from the drop down list.
The screen that comes up will display which browser and version you are using.
How to change the text size
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 or 6.0
- Select View menu, click on Text size and choose a size from the options Largest to Smallest.
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.2 (Macintosh)
- Click View menu, click on Text Zoom and choose a size from the options 50% - 300% or Larger or Smaller.
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0
- Select View menu, click on
Internet Options and choose Fonts and change the size to Small or Large.
- Netscape 6.0, and 4.0
- Select Edit menu and click on Preferences. A new window will
open. Select Appearance from the left hand side menu within the new
window. Under Fonts reset the size (for example, 10, 12, 14 and so on).
- FireFox
- Select View menu, click on
Text size and choose either Increase or Decrease the font size.
- Mozilla
- Select View menu, click on
Text Zoom, and choose a percentage size or select Larger or Smaller.
- Opera
- Select View menu, click on
Zoom, and then select a size from the list.>
- Safari
- Select View menu and click
Make Text Bigger to increase the font size or Make Text Smaller to reduce
the font size.
USING THE SITE
The site has the following navigational features to aid you in your visiting experience:
Search
Search the website to find what you want directly with keywords.
Breadcrumbs
Helps you to determine the location of the page that you are viewing at the time.
Content Menu
Covers topics of interest that are specific and related to what you see on the page.
Images
Images are displayed on the right hand side of the web page.
Images are
displayed as thumbnails and can be viewed at a bigger size by clicking on the
image.
Point of Interest
Points of interest are displayed on the right hand side of the web page.
They contain links to other relevant pages on this website.
PRINTER FRIENDLY
Throughout the website, every page has a printer friendly equivalent. Simply use the Print icon
on whichever page you like to print. The Print function is located on the right hand side of the page below the banner.
When a web page is printed,it will only print the title of the page, the location of the page as well as
the content. Navigation menus are automatically removed for your convenience to improve readability on paper.
PLUG-INS REQUIREMENTS
Throughout
this website, you may encounter documents and files that may require you to install
additional software on your computer. Please note that in most cases you are
not required to install anything as most computers are capable to read the
documents and files on this website.
The following
is a list of software that you may need to read the documents and files on this
website:>
- PDF Documents
- Flash Documents
- Microsoft PowerPoint Presentations
- Microsoft Excel Documents
- Microsoft Word Documents
Exchanging files between previous releases of Microsoft Office and the 2007 Microsoft Office release
Microsoft has
added new file formats to Microsoft Office Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 to
reduce file size, improve security and reliability, and enhance integration
with external sources. To help ensure that you can exchange documents between
Microsoft Office releases, Microsoft has developed a Compatibility Pack for the
Office Word, Office Excel, and Office PowerPoint 2007 File Formats.
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