What is accessibility?
Accessibility is the term used to describe how a product, service or place can be easily used by as many people as possible. It is about making things usable to all people, whatever their age, abilities or disabilities.
How does accessibility impact this website?
We have taken all care to ensure our website complies with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (commonly known as WCAG 2.0).
We are dedicated to making this website as accessible as we can. If you have any suggestions about how we could improve the accessibility of our website, please contact webmaster@wmk.govt.nz.
Browser support
This website works best in the latest versions of Firefox and Google Chrome, and Internet Explorer 9 or above.
Text size
The text size can be increased or decreased via your browser by pressing 'CTRL +' to increase the text size, or 'CTRL -' to decrease the text size. Alternatively, you can hold down 'CTRL' and scroll the mouse middle button to change the text size.
If you are viewing this website in Internet Explorer, you can change the size of the text by clicking View > Text Size.
Tablets and smartphones
This website has been designed to adjust to smaller screen sizes such as on a tablet or smartphone. It supports the 'pinch to zoom' function on mobile devices.
Screen readers
We have tried to make this website as accessible as possible to visually-impaired visitors using screen readers. If you have any difficulty accessing this website with a screen reader, please email webmaster@wmk.govt.nz and let us know.
Portable Document Format (PDF) files
Some of the information on this website, including official publications, is provided in PDF format. To view or print PDF files you will need a PDF reader such as Adobe Reader which is available free. Where documents are provided in PDF format, we have provided the file size, as large files can take a while to download if you are using an older computer or have a slow internet connection.
If you have difficulty reading a PDF document, please contact webmaster@wmk.govt.nz and let us know what document you are having problems with.
Feedback/further assistance
If you want to share any thoughts you have about our website, or make a suggestion, please email webmaster@wmk.govt.nz.