Accessibility

NAVIGATING THIS SITE WITHOUT A MOUSE

You can jump straight to many of the main pages by holding down the ALT button on a PC and typing one of the keys below. On Macs, the CONTROL button is used in place of the ALT button. You may need to type enter after to complete a request.

0: Accessibility Page
1: Home Page
2: Site Map
3: Search
4: About OIO
5: News
6: Publications
7: Archives
8: Statistics
9: Contact Us

[: Skip menus to main content of current page
/: go to www.govt.nz (Open the NZ Government Online Portal site)

left-arrow: back
right-arrow: forward

You can select any linked information (menus, images or links embedded in text content) by using the tab button.

ADJUSTING THE TEXT SIZE

Those with poor sight may be able to increase the size of the text on screen in their browsers.

Internet Explorer:
Select the 'View' menu, then 'Text Size', and then your chosen size (or if you have a mouse wheel simply hold down CTRL and roll the mouse wheel to alter the text size).

Netscape 6, Mozilla, Firefox:
Hold down CTRL and press + or - to alter the text size.

Netscape 4:
Hold down CTRL and press [ or ] to alter the text size.

Netscape 3:
Select 'Options', then 'General Preferences', then 'Fonts', and then 'Choose Font...' to choose a text size.

STANDARDS AND FILE FORMATS

Where practicable Hypertext Markup Langauge (HTML) versions of documents have been provided. Some documents contain complex tables of statistics and other graphical elements that are not well displayed in HTML. Such documents are available in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) for download or viewing in Adobe Acrobat Reader available free of charge from the Adobe download page.

HTML pages use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) version 1.0 to control the appearance of text, headings and hyperlinks. If a browser does not support CSS (through user choice or otherwise) there should be no loss of functionality. HTML pages have been coded to the 4.01 Strict schema.

The web-safe palette of 216 colours has been used in images throughout this site.

This site has been created in accordance with the WA 1.0 Guidelines Dec 2002 as recommended by the NZ e-government Guidelines.

If you feel that we could improve in terms of the website's accessibility, please let us know by emailing info@linz.govt.nz or see our contacts page for phone and postal information.