Commonwealth departments and agencies are required by the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 to ensure that online information and services are accessible by people with disabilities.

The Australian Electoral Commission’s (AEC) web site has been redesigned to improve navigation and increase accessibility. In doing so the AEC web site meets the Government Online standards that relate to access for people with disabilities.

The AEC web site is the work of many authors and is a dynamic environment. Therefore, there is always the possibility that accessibility difficulties may be encountered. There may be some data held in non-HTML formats. If there is data that you require and it is in a format that you cannot access, or if you experience any other accessibility difficulties, please advise the AEC Webmaster by emailing info@aec.gov.au or by writing to:

The Australian Electoral Commission
Public Awareness, Media & Research Section
PO Box 6172
KINGSTON
ACT 2604
Australia

The AEC Info Centre has been designed to meet accessibility guidelines as defined by the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0. These guidelines explain how to make Web content accessible to people with disabilities. This website follows the Priority One guidelines.

Changing Your Font Size

If you find the text on our site to be too small to read, you can change the font size in your web browser settings or use the Font Size tools located at the top right corner of each page.

Using A Speech Reader With PDF Files

Many documents on the AEC site are provided in Portable Document Format (PDF). access.adobe.com provides a number of tools that can help people who use speech readers to read the content of PDF documents. These tools convert PDF documents to text readable by speech readers.

Browsers

All information on this site is accessible by version 3 and above browsers. Best browsing experience can be had by using Internet Explorer 4 and above, or Netscape 6 and above (PC and Macintosh).

Metadata

The Australian Government Locator Service (AGLS) metadata standard is a set of 19 descriptive elements which government departments and agencies can use to improve the visibility and accessibility of the services and information they provide over the Internet. The metadata on the AEC web site complies with the AGLS metadata standards.