Accessibility

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Visibility Support

Font size adjustment tool - you can click on the symbols (top - right) - + to make text larger or smaller. You can also make additional adustments through your browser.

Contrast adjustment - adjust the contrast of your screen through your browser, your monitor or using one of the several screen enhancement features built into standard Windows software. These features include preset "high contrast" colour schemes, larger standard fonts, and improvements to the visibility of the mouse pointer. Windows XP also has an in built magnifier. Although some of these features may be helpful, they do not offer the same level of access as a purpose-built screen magnification program. To learn more visit Vision Australia

Assistive Technology - AFA is committed to accessible web content and works to ensure the site is compatible with assistive technology. If you have comments or suggestions about how we could do this better please contact our webmaster.

Vision Australia provides a good review on support avaliable for vision and mobility impared viewers - click this outbound link to visit Vision Australia and learn more about the software to adapt your viewing experience.

Accessing Files on this site

PDF Files:

Adobe Acrobat Reader is required to view or print PDF documents and can be downloaded free of charge from Adobe.

Adobe also provides tools for the blind and visually impaired to access PDF documents. These tools are available at: http://access.adobe.com/

PDF is a graphically oriented file format designed for electronic interchange; it was developed by Adobe Systems Inc. for use with its Acrobat software.

In a PDF file, any page in a publication can be displayed or printed by a user in a form virtually identical to the page that appeared in the publication (including richly formatted text, graphics, and colours). The PDF format is derived from PostScript, the page description language developed by Adobe. A PDF file is much smaller than a corresponding PostScript file, which makes it more suitable for electronic delivery.

PDF files can be enhanced with hyperlinks to other parts of the document, to other files, to other addresses on the World Wide Web, and to other applications. Adobe has released a free Acrobat reader for PDF files. With the Acrobat reader, a user can view and print PDF files; in addition, a user can extract text into ASCII or Rich Text Format (a file format that preserves some of the font and formatting characteristics of a document) and perform searches on the document.

News Items:

The scrolling news panel on the left is regularly updated with the latest news concerning Forgotten Australians. If you see something you'd like to read place your mouse over the panel and the text will stop scrolling. To read more about an item click the link inside the panel.

AFA's Library contains the current news selection as well as many previous highlights (without the scroll panel).
Click this link to visit our Library Information.

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