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  • Accessibility features
  • Keyboard access
  • Browser support
  • Navigation
  • Search
  • Subscribing
  • Downloading and viewing documents
Accessibility features

This site has been designed and developed to ensure that its content is available to as many users as possible, including:

  • people with disabilities who may use assistive technologies
  • people with slower Internet connections (including some rural and regional users) or less than state-of-the-art equipment
  • people with non-PC Internet devices including handheld devices, game consoles and mobile phones.

The accessibility features available on this site include:

Keyboard access

The Crown Law website has been developed to be fully accessible via keyboard and using alternate input devices.

Access keys

Access keys are keyboard shortcuts and deliver quick access to important links on this site without using your mouse.

Access keys may benefit people with motor skill difficulties who use assistive technologies.

The access keys used on qld.gov.au are:

  • 1: not in use
  • 2: Queensland Government website home
  • 3: not in use
  • 4: contact us
  • 5: search
  • 6: not in use
  • 7: not in use
  • 8: not in use
  • 9: not in use
  • 0: not in use.
How to use access keys

If you are using a Windows computer: press Alt and the access key number to highlight the link. Press Enter to go to the linked page.

If you are using Macintosh computer: press Control and the access key number to highlight the link, then press Enter to go to the linked page.

Skip links

If you are using assistive technology such as a screen reader to browse this website, ‘skip links’ are provided at the beginning of the page to allow you to move quickly to key information such as the primary navigation, secondary navigation or content.

The links are not visible in a graphical browser but can be accessed as the first links in the tab order for each page.

Tab order

The Crown Law website has a logical tab order for navigating without a mouse. Use the Tab key on your keyboard to move to the next link or field. 

Use Shift plus Tab to move backwards and the Enter key to follow links and submit forms. Most browsers support these functions.

ARIA keyboard navigation

All rich interactive elements on the Crown Law website can be navigated using key combinations recommended by the Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) standard.

When using a browser that supports ARIA, you can:

  • use the Tab key to enter an interactive element as part of the tab order for the page
  • use the arrow keys to move focus between the different controls for the interactive element
  • use the Enter key to activate a focussed control
  • use the Tab key to move to the next set of controls or to leave the interactive element.

The following browsers are known to support ARIA:

  • Internet Explorer 8 and later
  • Firefox 2 and later
  • Opera 9 and later
  • Google Chrome.

When using a browser that does not support ARIA, all controls are still accessible as part of the normal tab order.

Browser support

The Queensland Government strives to make its public web resources compatible with a range of browsers, devices and platforms.

This is achieved by developing web resources according to international web standards and best practice, and regular testing across a range of different browsers.

The pages on this site are accessible using all Internet browsers and Internet devices, but may not display well in older browsers. If you are experiencing problems with any of our pages, please let us know.

Navigation

When using this website, there are a number of ways that you can navigate the site to access information and services.

Queensland Government logo

All Queensland Government websites display the Queensland Government logo which links to the Queensland Government home page. The logo on this site is located in the bottom left-hand corner of each page.

Contact

At the top right-hand corner of each page of this website you will find a link to the Contact page for general enquiries.

Site navigation

The site navigation is a menu located at the top of each page. This menu contains links to the major sections of the Crown Law website:

Section navigation

Section navigation is a menu used on all index and content pages on qld.gov.au and provides you with links to other pages within that section of the website. The section navigation (menu) will appear in the left-hand column on these pages.

Keyboard navigation

Several features have been included to help you navigate using a keyboard or alternate input devices or assistive technologies:

  • access keys
  • skip links
  • tab order.
Search

The site search facility can be found in the top right hand corner of all web pages on this site.
To perform a search, enter one or more words in the search field and click the search button (or press the Enter key on your keyboard).

This search tool is not case sensitive; there is no need to use capital letters. Using words such as a, an, the, or and of will not improve the results of the search.

Any documents containing all your words will be displayed first, followed by documents that contain some of your words.

Each result will include:

  • a number indicating its position in the ranking
  • the document title shown as a link that can be selected
  • a short summary of the document
  • the web address of the information displayed as a link that can be selected
  • the size of the document in kilobytes.
Downloading and viewing documents

To view Portable Document Format (PDF) files, you will need to have Adobe Reader installed. This can be downloaded free-of-charge from the Adobe website.

Use the Adobe Reader to:

  • View a document by selecting the link text. The document will load into the reader.

Save a document for later viewing by right-clicking your mouse on the link text and selecting Save Target As and saving the file in your preferred location.

If you have a Macintosh with a single button mouse:

  • Save a document for later viewing by holding down the control key while you click your mouse on the link text. Select Save Link As or Download Link to Disk and save the file in your preferred location.
Microsoft Office files

To view, save and print Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint files you will need either Microsoft Office, or the free Microsoft Office Online viewers, installed on your computer.

You can download the free Microsoft Office Online viewers from the links below:

Visit the accessibility section for details about navigating this site using assistive technologies.

To view Word, Excel or PowerPoint files:

  • View a document by selecting the link text. The document will load into the reader.

To save Word, Excel or PowerPoint files:

  • Save a document for later viewing by right-clicking your mouse on the link text and selecting Save Target As and saving the file in your preferred location.

If you have a Macintosh with a single button mouse:

  • Save a document for later viewing by holding down the control key while you click your mouse on the link text. Selecting Save Link As or Download Link to Disk and save the file in your preferred location.