Ageing, Disability and Home Care (ADHC) aims to make its website as accessible as possible.

Accessible web design

The ADHC website has 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 current abilities of web users in the community.

The ADHC website conforms to the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) version 2.0. The website has been designed to meet the criteria for Level AA of these guidelines.

Accessible PDF documents

To aid users with assistive technology, documents on the website have been made available as accessible Portable Document Format (PDF) with tagging, where possible. Where this has not been possible (eg. where certain types of information can not be presented in accessible PDF format), an alternative file format, such as a Rich Text Format (RTF) file or an HTML web page version has been provided.

If you are not able to open PDF files, you can download Adobe Reader from the Adobe website. 

Listening to web pages (ReadSpeaker)

ReadSpeaker allows the text on this website to be read out loud to you. It provides assistance if you have trouble reading text online. By having the text read out loud to you, you can understand the information on the website more easily. This makes the website more accessible and more pleasant to visit. As a user you don’t have to download anything. You simply click the listen button and the reading starts automatically.

How does it work?

This is what the listen button looks like on this website: 
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When you click the listen button, a new window will open with a control panel and ReadSpeaker automatically starts reading the text of the website out loud.

In the new window's control panel tab 'Listen', you can adjust the volume, pause, stop and restart the reading. Choose 'No sound?' if your browser does not support Flash.

If you click on the Flash player it will be in focus so that you can control it with the keyboard:

• Play/pause: Space bar
• Stop: Esc key
• Increase volume: Up arrow or the + key of the numeric keypad
• Lower Volume: Down arrow or the – key of the numeric keypad
• Fast forward: Right arrow
• Rewind: Left arrow

In the Settings tab you can control the reading speed and other settings. For more information visit ReadSpeaker's text to speech online site.

More accessibility improvements

We are continuing to improve the accessibility of the ADHC website as web technologies and assistive technologies change. If you have any questions or comments regarding the accessibility of information on this website, please use our feedback form.