About Accessibility
This website and its resources should be easily available to everyone - regardless of their disability, location, experience, or the type of technology used.
The Human Rights Commission and EEO Trust are committed to progressively developing NEON as an accessible website. If you have feedback please email neon@hrc.co.nz.
This site has many features to make information more accessible:
- All images have text alternates (ALT attributes)
- Pages are organised to be fully functional, even with javascript and CSS turned off
- All text uses relative font sizes so text can be enlarged or reduced using the text size options available in visual browsers
- Page formatting is done with CSS not tables, and image-replacement techniques have been used extensively to ensure that the semantic structure of the information is preserved
- This site follows World Wide Web and NZ E-Government accessibility guidelines
Read what disability commissioner Robyn Hunt has to say on accessible web content in An Accessible Work-wide Web
Use of text on this site
Most navigation elements are either plain text, or graphic-replaced text. We have provided text alternatives to graphics on the site. Those with poor sight may be able to increase the size of the text on screen. The procedure for doing so differs from one browser to the next. The table below outlines the procedure for some popular browsers. If your browser does not appear in the table the following guidelines may be of assistance: In general, looking under the "View" selection on the main menu, you should find an option called "Text Zoom" or "Text Magnification" or "Text Size" or "Font Size". From that point it should be relatively simple to find and select an additional sub menu option that adjusts the text size to accommodate your needs.
| Operating System | Browser | Instructions |
|---|---|---|
| PC Windows | Internet Explorer 3 and 4 | View > Fonts |
| PC Windows | Internet Explorer 5+ | View > Text Size |
| PC Windows | K-meleon | View > Increase Font / Decrease Font |
| PC Windows | Mozilla | View > Increase Text Size / Decrease Text Size |
| PC Windows | Netscape 6 | View > Text Size |
| PC Windows | Netscape 7 | View > Text Zoom |
| PC Windows | Opera 5 and 6 | Use dropdown menu on 'progress' bar |
| PC Windows | Opera 7 | View > Zoom |
| MAC | I-Cab | View > Font Size |
| MAC | Internet Explorer 4.5 | View > Text Size |
| MAC | Internet Explorer 5+ | View > Text Zoom |
| MAC | Netscape 4 | View > Increase/Decrease Font Size |
| MAC | Netscape 7 | View > Text Zoom |
| MAC | Opera 5 and 6 | Use dropdown menu on 'progress' bar |
| MAC | OmniWeb 4 | Browser > Bigger Text / Smaller Text |
| MAC | Safari | View > Text Size |