Accessibility

Accessibility statement

The Office of the Identity Commissioner aims to make sure that the widest possible range of people find our website easy to use, or "accessible". We will continue to work to increase the accessibility of our website over time.

Accessibility of our site

Our website has been built to meets the government standard for accessibility. This standard is known as Double-A (AA) level of the W3C Web Content Accessibility GuidelinesOpens in a new window. Where possible, we strive to meet Triple-A (AAA) level accessibility wherever it does not reduce usability for any other groups of users. The website is regularly tested to make sure it continues to meet these standards.

Accessibility help

There are a number of features available from your computer to make our website easier to use. These features can help you do such things as change the size and colour of the text and change the background colour.

This page contains information on:

Changing text size

The text on this website has been styled using a non-fixed value in a style sheet. This means that you can change the text size using your browser settings.

The BBC My Web My WayOpens in a new window site gives detailed help on making changes to your browser, operating system, or computer to view websites in a more accessible way.

Help with PDF documents

Information may be presented in Portable Document Format (PDF) documents. To read these documents online, or to print them, you need to have Adobe Reader installed on your computer. Adobe ReaderOpens in a new window can be downloaded free of charge from the Adobe website and is available for several computer operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac and Linux. Links to documents contained on this website will open in a new browser window.

Alternative ways to read our documents

If you use screen reader software or an audio-enabled web browser, Adobe provides a free online tool that you can use to convert the guides to a plain text format.

To use Adobe's online tool:

Find the link on this website to the document you want to read, and copy it.
Go to Adobe's online tools.Opens in a new window
Follow the instructions onscreen. The tool will display your chosen guide as a web page (HTML) or as plain text.