Accessibility
If you need information that is in a format you cannot access, or if you experience any other accessibility difficulties, please contact us with the details.
If you need assistance because the document you need is not available in a format you can access, please contact us.
Web standards
We follow World Wide Web Consortium's standards as far as possible - a set of global standards designed to make content available to everyone. This includes following their WCAG 1.0 Web Accessibility Initiative guidelines and, as far as possible with new content, we aim to meet their WCAG 2.0 guidelines. We also aim to meet the Australian Government Digital Transformation Agency Digital Service Standard.
As far as possible we have documents and/or summaries of documents available in either HTML and/or PDF formats.
Technical aspects
The styling of this site is designed to make the content scalable to fit different screen resolutions.
This site will display correctly in major browsers.
The text is scalable, allowing it to be resized in the browser window.
Print style sheets are provided to make printed pages clear and free from unnecessary material not required to be reproduced in print versions.
Links are friendly URLs and have meaningful link text which can be read by screen readers.
This website has been developed to meet the ‘AA’ conformance rating, as set out in the W3C web content accessibility guidelines, we are in the process of getting this website conformance rating approved.
HTML
As part of meeting the WCAG 2.0 standards, most information on the site will be provided in HTML format. Some larger documents may be published in an accessible PDF format. If you are unable to view information, please contact us and we will provide you a version that you can view.
PDFs
Some material on this site is available in PDF format. We use PDFs because they're portable, printable and reasonably accessible. A free PDF reader can be downloaded.
Accessibility and PDF files
If you are vision impaired, go to Adobe's screen-reader compatible download page. You may also find it helpful to download the Adobe Access plug-in which supports Windows text reading programs. For more information on PDF document accessibility go to Adobe's website.
Images
Images on this site have meaningful alternative ‘alt’ tags which can be read by screen readers.
Accessibility help - contact us
Accessibility of this website is very important to the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority and its education centre Reef HQ Aquarium. If you have any problems using this site or have any comments, feedback, or questions, please contact us.