Accessibility

This statement relates to content available on the State Library of New South Wales website www.sl.nsw.gov.au. If you have any questions or comments about this statement or the content on this site, please use our feedback page.

Accessible web design

Our websites have been developed to ensure content is available to the widest possible audience, including readers using assistive technology or accessibility features. By adhering to guidelines for accessible web design, we acknowledge the diversity of communication methods, available technologies and abilities of web-users in the community.

Our websites conform to W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). The public pages on this site meet the criteria for AA compliance with WCAG guidelines.

Standards compliance

This site meets all the coding criteria for compliance with W3C CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and XHTML 1.0 Transitional. Visit www.w3c.org for more information.

Accesskeys

You can use access keys to navigate around the site to points on the Accesskey menu using the keyboard. Press the approriate keys for your browser in conjunction with the accesskey:

Internet Explorer:

Alt + access key, then Enter

Firefox 1.5:

Alt + access key

Firefox 2.0:

Shift + Alt + access key

Opera:

Shift + Esc, then access key

Safari:
Firefox 2.0/Mac:

Ctrl + access key

Accesskey menu

Skip to content

Text-only browsers or browsers with CSS turned off will see a "Skip to content" link at the top of the page to allow users to jump directly to the content on a page, bypassing the header and site navigation sections.