Accessibility
The Coroners Court website has been developed to ensure its content is available to the widest possible audience, including readers using assistive technology or accessibility features.
By adhering to guidelines for accessible web design, the diversity of communication methods, available technologies and abilities of web-users in the community is acknowledged. The Coroners Court of Victoria strives to maintain conformance with W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
The Coroners Court of Victoria is committed to assisting people with disabilities to access our website.
If you have issues or suggestions on how we can improve the accessibility of this website, please contact us and let us know.
Text size
To improve visibility, the website has been designed to allow for scalable fonts through your web browser's inbuilt controls. The size of text on the website can be increased through your browser by following these instructions.
- Hold down the CTRL key and scroll up or down with your mouse wheel.
- Hold down the CTRL key and press the plus (+) or minus (-) keys.
- In Internet Explorer, you can change the font size by selecting the 'View' menu item and then selecting the 'Text Size' option.
- In Chrome, you can change your font size in the 'Settings' menu.
- In Firefox, you can change the font size by selecting the 'View' menus item and then selecting the 'Zoom' option. Select 'Zoom text only' if you wish to increase the size of text without increasing the size of images.
- In Apple Safari, you can change the font size by selecting the 'View' menu and then selecting either 'Make text bigger' or 'Make text smaller'. Safari users can also hold down the COMMAND key and press the plus (+) and minus (-) keys to increase or decrease the text size.
Downloadable documents
Where possible, content is made available in HTML format.
However to assist users to download, print and share web content, some documents are available in Portable Document Format (PDF). To access PDF files, download the free Acrobat Reader.
Accessibility software
- NVDA - a free screen reader for Windows.
- JAWS - a screen reader for Windows. A time-limited, downloadable demo is available.
- Lynx - a free, text-only web browser for blind users with refreshable Braille displays.
- Links - a free, text-only web browser for visual users with low bandwidth.
- Opera - a free visual browser with many accessibility-related features, including text zooming, user stylesheets, and image toggle. Compatible with Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and several other operating systems.