Accessibility is very important to us. Please feel free to get in touch with us if you have any problems using this site, if the document you need is not in a format you can access, or if you have any comments or questions. You can email us on website@oaic.gov.au or visit Contact us for more options.
Accessibility tips for this site
Many of these features require JavaScript.
Skip links
Every page starts with a skip link: “Skip to main content”.
Search: suggested pages
There is a search field at the top of every page. When you type into it, a list of links to suggested pages will be displayed after the search — you can navigate this list with the down arrow, or press Esc to close it.
Main menu
You can navigate the main menu using the Tab key. Each top-level menu link is followed by a button to toggle its submenu. Press Enter to open and close each submenu. You can also press Esc to close the submenus.
ARIA landmarks
Our site has the following ARIA landmarks:
Banner (contains quick links, including back to Home and Contact us)
Main menu (navigation)
Search
Page Content (main)
Sidebar (complementary) shows related pages, and table of contents
Content info (this is the footer)
navigation (contains News and media, and other forms of engaging with us)
ReadSpeaker reads aloud the text on the web page. This is useful if you prefer listening over reading.
You don’t need to install anything to use ReadSpeaker — just click “Listen to this page”. However, be aware the audio you listen to counts towards your data usage. 1 MB is roughly 3 minutes.
How to use ReadSpeaker
Click “Listen to this page” to start ReadSpeaker. It’s at the top of every page and looks like this:
An audio player appears and ReadSpeaker starts to read aloud the main content of the web page.
Play or Pause reading
Stop reading
Progress bar
Volume
Settings
Download the MP3 audio file of the page
Close the player
The ReadSpeaker accesskey is L. You can use Tab and Shift + Tab to navigate inside the player. Press Enter to activate the buttons.
Settings
In the Settings menu, you can:
Choose if you want ReadSpeaker to highlight the text while reading.
Choose if the text should be highlighted on word-and-sentence, sentence only, or word only.
Choose colours for highlighting.
Turn on Enhanced Text Visibility. This takes the current sentence and shows it at the bottom of the screen in a much larger text size.
Choose if you want the reading speed to be slow, medium or fast.
Choose if you want the page to scroll automatically to follow the highlighted text.
Choose if you want the pop-up Listen button to appear when you select text.
Restore all the settings to default.
When you change the Settings, a cookie named ReadSpeakerSettings will be stored on your device. This allows your settings to be used across any website that uses ReadSpeaker.