Accessibility Statement, Guidelines and Advice
Our Website web accessibility design and conforms to the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) internationally recognised Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 to the level AA (Double-A conformance). This means that it meets both basic and advanced accessibility standards and can be used by most people with special needs. Our website also uses Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and style templates that standardise all the pages on the portal, thus enhancing accessibility.
Accessibility Considerations on Our website
Ensuring a high level of accessibility is an ongoing process, and Our website is continually reviewed for improvement. Our website is fully accessible to all people with different levels of accessibility requirements. Consideration has been given to the following areas to ensure that Our website is accessible to all:
Accessible by Popular Browsers and Operating Systems
The HTML 5 standard has been applied to the webpages on Our website, and users can access them with any browser that complies with the standard. But exactly how a webpage is displayed differs between browsers, computers and operating systems. For the best viewing, we suggest that you use the latest version of Mozilla Firefox, Safari or Google Chrome.
Keyboard Shortcuts
Users who may be less adept at using mouse, such as the blind or those with neuromuscular impairments, may need to use the keyboard without a mouse to browse a website.
Our website was designed in a way that you can use the keyboard exclusively to access all features and contents. For example, when you use the tab key, the cursor will move to all of the menus, hyperlinks or input boxes one by one in a logical order.
Some browsers also provide keyboard shortcuts that can make it easier to browse the website with your keyboard only. List of shortcuts for Firefox is available through the following link.
Compatibility with Screen Readers and Screen Magnifying Software
Our website has been tested against the common screen readers and screen magnifying software used by the visually impaired in Hong Kong, including NonVisual Desktop Access (NVDA), Chinese JAWS and Windows Light. Our website also works on screen magnifying software such as Zoomtext. More details about how Our website's design addresses the needs of screen reader users are available through the following link.
Web Accessibility Conformance Statements
We are committed to ensuring that our website conforms to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 Level AA requirements to the maximum extent possible. However, due to the following reason(s), some webpages may not be able to incorporate all Level AA accessibility features at this point in time.
As our website contains considerable multi-media contents, it is not possible to incorporate all Level AA accessibility requirements in all of them. Nonetheless, the multi-media contents are so located as not to affect the accessibility of significant contents in our website.
As our website contains some archive materials that are not frequently used, not all Level AA accessibility features have been incorporated.