FSID is committed to ensuring this website can be accessed and used effectively by everyone. To demonstrate this commitment, we currently comply with the following web standards:
Bobby
Watchfire® Bobby 5.0 is a web accessibility testing tool designed to help expose barriers to accessibility and encourage compliance with existing accessibility guidelines. Please see http://webxact.watchfire.com/
FSID currently holds the highest Bobby accreditation, the Triple-A level.
W3C
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was created in October 1994 to lead the world wide web to its full potential by developing common protocols that promote its evolution and ensure its interoperability.
FSID also complies with W3C XHTML 1.0 and adheres to the W3C CSS standard.
Useful accessibility links:
RNIB: designing accessible Web sites
W3C Web Accessibility Initiative
Disability Discrimination Act
The Disability Rights Commission website
Web Browser Guidance
This site has been designed and tested to support a wide variety of web browsers and versions. However you may experience formatting problems on a small number of older browser versions and we therefore recommend that you use the latest available version of your particular web browser software. You can usually check which version you have from the 'About' option on your browser's 'Help' menu.
Screen Resolution
All the pages on this website have been designed to be viewed in a single screen width with any computers set for a screen resolution of 800x600 or more.
Text size
If you find the text size on this website too small or too large, you can change the size of the text via your web browser.
If you are using Internet Explorer 5.0 or a more recent version, go to the menu at the top of the browser page and select View, from the list of options, select Text Size. You will see a side menu open up; select the size you wish to view the website in.
Printer Friendly pages
All pages throughout the site are printer friendly.
Downloading Documents
You will find a number of downloadable documents on the site most of which are in PDF format, you can view an explanation of PDF files here.
To be able to view any PDF document on this website, you will need to ensure that you have the Adobe Acrobat Reader software installed on your computer. You can download the free Reader software here.
Once you have installed this software, you will be able to open up any of the PDF documents made available on our website