Website Accessibility

This website is produced by the Champion Lakes Regatta Centre. It aims to provide comprehensive information about the Champion Lakes watersport facility and community facilities.

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, and
• those with non-PC internet devices including hand held devices and mobile phones.

People with disabilities or those using assistive technologies may already be aware of the assistive devices modern web browsers have already built into them or available as add-ons. For this reason, modern website developers no longer need to build websites that include accessibility features that modern browsers already contain. For more information please visit this Wiki Article or download one of the following modern browsers that allow for easy website accessibility:

• Firefox
• Safari
• Google Chrome
• Opera

This page covers four important guides to using this web site in an effort to improve accessibility:

• Text resizing - how to resize the text size viewed on screen within the browser to enhance readability,
• Using the site - how to use the web site and its features,
• Printer friendly - how to print web pages from this web site, and
• Plug-ins requirement - how to install optional plug-ins to access some features of this web site.

Text resizing

You can make the text larger or smaller on this site, or on any website you visit by changing the settings on your computer.

To check which version of Internet browser is installed on your machine:

• open your browser
• select Help from the top menu of your browser
• select About (followed by your browser name) from the drop down list.

The screen that comes up will display which browser and version you are using.

How to change the text size

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0, 5.0 and 6.0
• These browsers are now 10+ years old and are not supported by many websites. These browsers also lack convenient accessibilty and security features of modern browers.



• Microsoft Internet Explorer 7+
• selecting View from the menu bar, selecting Text Size from the View menu, then select the size you want from the list.
  
  OR
  
  If you have a wheeled mouse you can use Ctrl and the mouse wheel to increase and decrease the text size.
  
  OR
  
  You can zoom in/out on a webpage at anytime using the magnifying glass on the bottom right of the browser.



• FireFox 3+
• selecting View from the menu bar, then selecting Increase Font or Decrease Font as required, from the View menu.
  
  OR
  
  Increase the text size by selecting Ctrl +
  Decrease the text size by selecting Ctrl -
  
  OR
  
  If you have a wheeled mouse you can use Ctrl and the mouse wheel to increase and decrease the text size.



• Opera
• selecting View from the menu bar and selecting Zoom from the View menu, then select the zoom factor you want from the list



• Safari
• Select View menu and click Make Text Bigger to increase the font size or Make Text Smaller to reduce the font size or Ctrl + or -




Using the site

The site has the following navigational features to aid you in your visiting experience

• Main Menu

Located on the left of every page, it includes all aspects of Champion Lakes and areas of interest to local citizens.

• Search

Located at the top of every page, the search box allows you to search the website directly using keywords.

• Extra Accessibility Menu

Located at the top right of every page, it includes items to assist website visitors such as our site map and contact link.

Printer-Friendly

Throughout the web site, every page is printer friendly. Simply use the Print function of your browser to print whichever page you like. The Print function is usually located under the File menu of your browser window.

When a web page is printed, it will only print the title of the page, the location of the page as well as the content. Navigation menus are automatically removed for your convenience to improve readability on paper.

Plug-ins Requirements

To assist accessibilty to people with slow internet connections we have kept our website accessibilty requirements to a bare minimum. In most cases you are not required to install anything as most computers are capable to read the documents and files on this web site.

The following is a list of software that you may need to read some documents and files on this web site:

• PDF Documents
  • Adobe PDF Reader
• Flash Images (optional)
  • Macromedia Flash