Accessibility

Our committment to Accessibility

The Greens NSW support the principle of facilitating broad participation in the political process. In today's world, ensuring that web resources used by Government and political organisations are accessible is a vital part of ensuring participation.

We have undertaken to use our knowledge and understanding of the ways in which different people access the Internet, to develop a web site that is clear and simple for everybody to use. We feel that political organisations have a responsibility to make their contribution to make the political process that much more transparent, open, and accessible to the entire community, and have made a committment to live up to that in our own websites.

We will not always be able to achieve everything we would like to, but are confident that we have worked hard to achieve a useful and accessible resource, given our limited resources.

Standards

This site uses the Open Source Content Management System Plone and has been designed to be completely accessible and usable, working in accordance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG v1.0). Our efforts to achieve an accessible website are ongoing.

If there is anything on this site — accessibility or validation related — that is not according to the standard, please contact the Site Administration, and not the Plone Team.

This site conforms to the following standards:

This Plone site was built with valid CSS.

This Plone site is usable in any web browser.

Validation

We have used XHTML 1.0 and CSS that conforms to specification, as laid out by the W3C because we believe that usability and accessibility must have a solid foundation. If anything on this web site does not validate correctly, please contact the Site Administration, and not the Plone Team.

We have endeavoured to achieve a good standard of accessibility as measured against version 1.0 of the WCAG maintained by the Web Accessibility Initiative. While we are confident that we have satisfied most of the requirements in the Guidelines, we are aware that some users of JAWS have experienced difficulties with some areas of the site, but efforts to improve accessibility are ongoing.

We have used the University of Toronto's A-Checker tool for our WCAG compliance tests.

Access keys

Access keys are a navigation device enabling you to get around this web site using your keyboard.

In-depth information about access keys can be found at W3C Accessibility Guidelines.

Available access keys

This site uses a setup that closely matches most international recommendations on access keys. These are:

1 — Home Page
2 — Skip to content
3 — Site Map
4 — Search field focus
5 — Advanced Search
7 — News
8 — Campaigns
9 — Contact information
0 — Access Key details

Using access keys in different web browsers

Internet Explorer 5+ (Windows): Hold down the Alt key, press the number or letter of the access key, release both keys then press ENTER.
Firefox, Mozilla and Netscape 7+ (Windows): Hold down the Alt key and press the number or letter of the access key.
Firefox, Mozilla and Netscape 7+ (Mac OS X): Hold down the Ctrl key and press the number or letter of the access key.
Safari and Omniweb (Mac OS X): Hold down the Ctrl key and press the number or letter of the access key.
Konqueror (Linux): Press and release the Ctrl key, then press the number or letter of the access key.
Internet Explorer 4 (Windows): Hold down the Alt key and press the number or letter of the access key.
Internet Explorer 5+ (Mac): Hold down the Ctrl key and press the number or letter of the access key.
Internet Explorer 4.5 (Mac): Access keys are not supported, please use a different browser.
Netscape 6 and earlier (All platforms): Access keys are not supported, please use a different browser.

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