Accessibility

 

Cerebral Palsy Australia is committed to providing a web site that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of technology or ability.

W3C Standards

 

This web site endeavors to conform to level AA of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0.

 

These guidelines explain how to make web content more accessible for people with a disability. Conformance with these guidelines help make the web more user friendly for all people.

 

This site displays correctly in current browsers and is coded to ensure it will display correctly in future browsers.

 

Accessibility Tips

 

Browser Keyboard shortcuts (Internet Explorer)

 

The following browser keyboard shortcuts apply to Microsoft Internet Explorer. Most of the shortcuts work on Apple Macintosh systems by using the Command key instead of the Control (CTRL) key. Similarly, most shortcuts work on Unix systems by using the ALT key instead of the CTRL key.

 

The following four keyboard shortcut forms are used throughout the list below:

 

CTRL = Control 

ALT = Alternative 

ESC = Escape 

UP, DOWN, RIGHT, LEFT = equivalent arrow keys

 

The following 24 items indicate keyboard shortcuts for Microsoft Internet Explorer. Note that "+" means pressing the two keys at the same time and that an asterisk denotes options only available in Internet Explorer 5.0 and higher:

 

Move to the next link: TAB 

Move to previous link: SHIFT + TAB 

Activate a selected link: ENTER 

Find text on the current page: CTRL + F 

Move to the next page (Forward): SHIFT + BACKSPACE or ALT + RIGHT ARROW 

Move to the previous page (Back): BACKSPACE or ALT + LEFT ARROW 

Move to the next frame: CTRL + TAB 

Move to the previous frame: SHIFT + CTRL + TAB 

Scroll towards the beginning of a document: UP ARROW or (in larger increments) PAGE UP 

Scroll towards the end of a document: DOWN ARROW or (in larger increments) PAGE DOWN 

Move to the beginning of the page: HOME 

Move to the end of a page: END 

Refresh the current page: F5 or CTRL + R 

Stop downloading the current page: ESC 

Go to a new location: CTRL + O 

Open a new browser window: CTRL + N 

Save the current page: CTRL + S 

Print the current page or active frame: CTRL + P 

Select all in the current page: CTRL + A 

Copy the selection: CTRL + C 

Close the current window: CTRL + W 

Quit the current program: ALT + F4 

* Go to the "Homepage": ALT + HOME 

* View the web site in full screen: F11 (press F11 to toggle on and off)

 

Browser Keyboard shortcuts (Mozilla Firefox)

 

This is a list of keyboard shortcuts in Mozilla Firefox.

 

Browser Window and Menu Shortcuts (Safari)

 

This document lists the window and menu keyboard shortcuts for the Safari browser.