Accessibility

Accessibility help - contact us

Accessibility is important to us. Please let us know through our feedback and complaints form or contact us via our web form or by phoning (03) 9214 7888 if you:

Web standards

Under the Disability Discrimination Act 1992, Australian Government agencies are required to ensure information and services are provided in a non-discriminatory accessible manner.

The Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS) is committed to making our content available to the widest possible audience by providing an accessible website. We are currently working to make sure our sites are compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.0 (WCAG 2.0) in line with requirements for Australian Government websites.

WCAG 2.0 is a standard developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), and endorsed by the Australian Government.

We follow the Australian Government Information Management Office's mandatory requirements for Australian Government agencies when developing and maintaining our online presence. These standards include aspects relating to access for people with disabilities.

Navigation

The primary navigation system on our website is a top menu with drop down sub-menus providing quick access to the site's major content areas. All areas of the website can also be accessed with Javascript and/or Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) disabled.

A "Skip to content" link is available at the top of each web page, allowing you to skip the primary navigation links and move directly to the main content area of the web page, which can improve accessibility when using screen readers or text-only browsers.

A search feature and site map are also provided, to allow you to find information on our website in the way you prefer.

Document types

Material on our website is published primarily in HTML with a Portable Document Format (PDF) version provided as a convenient printable alternative for many of our publications. A selection of Institute publications are also being made available in EPUB 2.0 format. Some older publications are available only as PDF, RTF or Word documents, or in a combination of these formats.

If you have difficulty accessing a document on our website please contact us and we will endevour to provide it to you in a format that fits your needs.

Note: You need a PDF viewer to read and access the information contained within PDF files. View a list of free downloadable PDF readers.

Audio transcripts

We provide audio files of many AIFS seminar presentations from 2008 onwards, and also of selected publications. Where an audio file is available transcripts are also provided.

Technical aspects

Our website is designed to allow scalable content to fit different screen resolutions, and will display in a wide range of browsers.

The text is scalable, allowing it to be resized in the browser window.

Links have meaningful link text which can be read by screen readers.

Images on this site have meaningful alternative "alt" tags which can be read by screen readers.

Further information

More information on web accessibility is available on the following sites: