Accessibility | Department of Communities

This site is produced by the Department of Communities. It aims to provide access to comprehensive information about its role and services.

This website has been designed to be as accessible to as many users as possible, including:

People with disabilities who may use assistive technologies
Those with slower internet connections or less than state of the art equipment
Rural and regional users
Those with non-PC internet devices including hand held devices and mobile phones.

The www.communities.wa.gov.au site has achieved AA level compliance with the guidelines for accessibility of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Consequently all pages are compliant with Priority 1 guidelines based on W3C Web Accessibility standards.

The accessibility features available on this site include:

Functionality for increasing or decreasing the text size for the site
Descriptive text for images (ALT text) that can be read by assistive technologies
High Contrast colour scheme that assists users with visual impairments
Use of lightweight images / design to decrease load times.

All pages on this website can be printed, using the 'Print' button that is located to the upper right area of each page.

Documents required in alternate formats

Please note that you can also request to acquire any documents available on the web site in the following formats:

Printed/hard-copy
Documents to be made available in an alternative format such as plain text file.

Please use the details available in the Contact Us page to make any such requests, or to provide feedback on your experience using the site.