Accessibility

This site is produced by the Office of Multicultural Interests (OMI). The Office of Multicultural Interests is part of the Western Australian Department of Local Government. The website aims to provide comprehensive information about OMI and its services.

This website has been designed to be as accessible to as many users as possible, including:

people with disabilities who may use assistive technologies
those with slower internet connections or less than state-of-the-art equipment
rural and regional users
those with non-PC internet devices including hand-held devices and mobile phones.

The accessibility features available on this site include:

instructions for resizing text
skip links and a logical tab order to navigate using assistive technologies
text-only page
printer-friendly page.

Please note that you can also request to acquire any documents available on the website.

printed/hard-copy; or
documents to be made available in an alternative format such as plain text file.

This page covers four important guides to using this website in an effort to improve accessibility:

text resizing – how to resize the text size viewed on screen within the browser to enhance readability
using the site – how to use the website and its features
printer friendly – how to print web pages from this website
plug-in requirements – how to install optional plug-ins to access some features of this website.

Text resizing

You can make the text larger or smaller on this site, or on any website you visit by changing the settings on your computer.

To check which version of internet browser is installed on your machine:

open your browser
select Help from the top menu of your browser
select About (followed by your browser name) from the drop-down list.

The screen that comes up will display which browser and version you are using.

How to change the text size

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0, 6.0 or 7.0
Select View menu, click on Text size and choose a size from the options Largest to Smallest.
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.2 (Macintosh)
Click View menu, click on Text Zoom and choose a size from the options 50–300% or Larger or Smaller.
Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0
Select View menu, click on Internet Options and choose Fonts and change the size to Small or Large.
Netscape 6.0, and 4.0
Select Edit menu and click on Preferences. A new window will open. Select Appearance from the left-hand side menu within the new window. Under Fonts reset the size (for example, 10, 12, 14 and so on).
FireFox
Select View menu, click on Zoom and choose either Increase or Decrease font size.
Opera
Select View menu, click on Zoom, and then select a size from the list.
Safari
Select View menu and click Make Text Bigger to increase the font size or Make Text Smaller to reduce the font size.

Using the site

The site has the following navigational features to aid you in your visiting experience:

Overview menu: Covers all aspects of OMI's services and areas of interest.
Search: Search the website to find what you want directly with keywords.
Breadcrumb: Helps you to determine the location of the page that you are viewing at the time.
Content menu: Covers topics of interest that are specific and related to what you see on the page.

Printer-friendly

Throughout the website, every page is printer friendly. Simply use the Print function of your browser to print whichever page you like. The Print function is usually located under the File menu of your browser window.

When a web page is printed, it will only print the title of the page, the location of the page as well as the content. Navigation menus are automatically removed for your convenience to improve readability on paper.

Plug-in requirements

Throughout this website, you may encounter documents and files that may require you to install additional software on your computer. Please note that in most cases you are not required to install anything as most computers are capable of reading the documents and files on this website.

The following is a list of software that you may need to read the documents and files on this website:

PDF Documents – Adobe PDF Reader
Flash Documents – Macromedia Flash
Microsoft PowerPoint Presentations – Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer 2003 for Windows, or
OpenOffice for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows
Microsoft Excel Documents – Microsoft Excel Viewer 2003 for Windows, or
OpenOffice for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows
Microsoft Word Documents – Microsoft Word Viewer 2003 for Windows, or
OpenOffice for Linux, Mac OS X and Window

Exchanging files between previous releases of Microsoft Office and the 2007 Microsoft Office release

Microsoft has added new file formats to Microsoft Office Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 to reduce file size, improve security and reliability, and enhance integration with external sources. To help ensure that you can exchange documents between Microsoft Office releases, Microsoft has developed a Compatibility Pack for the Office Word, Office Excel, and Office PowerPoint 2007 File Formats.

Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 file formats

Alternatively, you can also request to acquire any documents available on the website by using the Contact Us form in the following formats:

printed/hard-copy or
documents to be made available in an alternative format such as plain text file.