Accessibility

This site is designed to be easy to use with screen reading software and for people who prefer to use a keyboard rather than a mouse.

Navigating the site without a mouse:

Once you’ve entered this site you can use the TAB key to go from link to link. Here is the order of the links you'll find as you tab through the site.

Jump to the content of the page.
Jump to the main navigation bar.
Jump to the secondary navigation for the section of the site you are in.
Jump to the links for help with the site.
Link to the home page.
Thereafter the Tab key will cycle through the main navigation: Links to About us, News and events, FAQs, Resources, Contact us, About this site, Search.

Then the Tab key will take you through the secondary navigation, and then to links within the page content.

Features for visually impaired users:

You can change most of the design format of this site to suit your needs. For example, you can change the font, font size, font colour, or background colours. To change font sizes:

Internet Explorer  Select View / Text Size
Netscape 6 and above  Hold down the Ctrl key and press + or -
Netscape 4   Hold down the Ctrl key and press [ or ]
Netscape 3   Select Options / General Preferences / Fonts / Choose Font

Using this site without a mouse

Listed below are the short-cut keys specific to this site. Other short-cut keys are standard, but vary from browser to browser. These keys will take you to any part of the site. Once within the site you can use the TAB key to go from link to link.

Windows: use alt+[number]+Enter to use with IE5x, and 6x.
For Netscape 6x, and Firefox, just use Alt+[number].
Macintosh: same as above but use 'ctrl' instead of 'alt'.)

Access key Function


1	Home page
5	About Us
6	News and events
7	FAQs
8	Resources
9	Contact Us
0	About this site
+	Search
\	Links for help with this site
/	NZGO
=	Links to other pages in this section.
]	Skip to the contents of this page.
[	Go to main navigation.