The Australian Human Rights Commission takes seriously its obligation to provide information in accessible formats. Accessibility has been the main aim for the design of the Something In Common and Tell Me Something I Don't Know websites. The Commission aims to continually improve the websites.
Navigation for Something In Common
The following list details some of the site-wide navigation features that will improve the overall accessibility of the site.
A 'Skip to content' link is available for users using text-only browsers such as lynx or screenreaders. This link is at the top of the page and allows you to skip directly to the content without having to scroll past the site navigation and headers.
Technical requirements
This website will run on a wide range of browsers and operating systems.
JavaScript is used throughout this site. However, site content is still accessible to users with JavaScript disabled.
The Something In Common website aims to make full use of engaging multimedia. The Commission endeavours to make accessible alternatives available where possible, such as transcripts of videos and audio files. The Something In Common website also encourages user-generated content. It is possible that some user-generated content will not include transcripts of videos or audio files. The Commission will seek to provide transcripts where possible for user-generated content within a reasonable period of time from the content appearing on the site.
The Something In Common site also embeds YouTube videos that are not produced by the Commission in the Look Around section. Where possible, the Commission will choose to embed YouTube videos that include transcripts or captions.
Standards
This website has been designed to take into account accessibility issues covered by these standards:
- W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (2008)
- AGIMO Web Publishing Guide: Accessibility (2010)
- Australian Human Rights Commission World Wide Web Access: Disability Discrimination Act Advistory Notes, version 4 (October 2010)
Standards compliance
Layout is controlled by Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and has been written according to the CS 2.1 specifications. The site is still navigable for users who do not use CSS or graphical browsers.
Structured and meaningful Hypertext Mark-up Language (HTML) has been used to assist users accessing the site via non-visual means, such as users of screen-reading software.
The linked CSS file validates to CSS version 2.
All pages on this site conform to W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0, level A.
Alternative formats
Please contact us if you need information from the website presented in an alternative format for accessibility reasons.
Accessibility help - contact us
Accessibility of this website is very important to the Commission, please contact us if you have any problems with using the site or for any comments, feedback or questions. Contact us at community.enagement@humanrights.gov.au.
