Each year FaCS uses the annual report as a benchmark for the accessibility of FaCS information online. The FaCS Annual Report for 2004-05 reflects the work undertaken across FaCS to improve the accessibility and readability of online information products.
Accessibility conformance
The Accessible Information Solutions web accessibility group at the National Information & Library Service has worked with FaCS and its developers to ensure that the FaCS Annual Report for 2004-05 meets the highest levels of best-practice accessibility.
Accessibility details
We encourage all users of the report to provide feedback regarding any access problems, small or large. Providing as much information as possible about your computer, operating system and browser makes it a lot easier to identify your access problems and fix them where possible.
As a key driver for the Commonwealth Disability Strategy, FaCS aims to provide a report accessible to the largest possible audience while demonstrating that the report can still remain attractive. We use standards for web design (references are outlined below) and style sheets to do this. Some of the features of the site that demonstrate this are:
- alternative text links for image based links
- summary attributes for layout tables
- caption and table header attributes for data tables
- descriptive text equivalents for figures, charts and graphs
- adjustable text sizes
- consistent navigation themes
- extensive style sheet presentation control
- multiple browser testing
For users with vision impairments, we particularly encourage you to provide us with feedback regarding the accessibility of the Annual Report 2004-05. FaCS works with internal and external agencies to develop standards that attain to the highest level of accessibility for users with vision impairments but user feedback is an integral part of this process.
Standards
Standards followed in the development of this site are based on the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Version 1.0 (WCAG 1.0), a set of guidelines developed by the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) to enable equal access to all users of the internet.
Check the WAI-QuickTips for a brief overview of building web sites enabled for access impaired users or see Checklist of Checkpoints for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 for a detailed insight.
Printing pages
We've produced a style sheet for printing pages from CSS enabled browsers but if results are unsatisfactory please send us feedback. Again, providing as much information as possible about your computer, operating system, browser and printer make it a lot easier to identify problems. Alternatively, we can suggest downloading the PDF versions for printing.
CSS based site for access impaired users
Feedback from vision impaired users on the accessibility of this site is welcomed, particularly regarding the ‘CSS layout' used.
Financial statements now available as HTML
HTML versions of the audited Financial Statements 2004-05 are available and can be downloaded in PDF format.
Large pages
There are several large pages that may take longer to download due to extensive table data and figure graphics. Please send us feedback if you think the download times were too excessive.
Feedback
Please contact us with feedback regarding any problems accessing this report.