Accessibility
- This site employs many features to make information more accessible:
- Using this site without a mouse
- Use of text on this site
- PDF Documents
This site employs many features to make information more accessible:
- All images have text alternatives (ALT attributes)
- Pages are organized to be fully functional, even with javascript and CSS turned off
- All text uses relative font sizes so text can be enlarged or reduced using the text size options available in visual browsers (see instructions below)
- The site can be navigated without the use of a mouse (see instructions below)
- Page formatting is done with CSS not tables, and image-replacement techniques have been used extensively to ensure that the semantic structure of the information is preserved
- This site follows World Wide Web and NZ E-Government accessibility guidelines
Using this site without a mouse
| AccessKey | Function |
| 0 | Navigate to the Accessibility page (this page) |
| 1 | Navigate to the Home page. |
| 4 | Navigate to the About EQC page. |
| 5 | Navigate to the EQC Insurance page. |
| 6 | Navigate to the EQC Research page. |
| 7 | Navigate to the Quake Safe Your Home page. |
| 8 | Navigate to the Links page. |
| 9 | Navigate to the Contact Us page. |
| [ | Bypass the main navigation and jump to the beginning of the main content of the current page |
| / | Navigate to newzealand.govt.nz - connecting you to New Zealand central & local government services. |
Use of text on this site
Most navigation elements are either plain text, or graphic-replaced text. We have provided text alternatives to graphics on the site.
Those with poor sight may be able to increase the size of the text on screen. The procedure for doing so differs from one browser to the next.
The table below outlines the procedure for some popular browsers. If your browser does not appear in the table the following guidelines may be of assistance: In general, looking under the "View" selection on the main menu, you should find an option called "Text Zoom" or "Text Magnification" or "Text Size" or "Font Size". From that point it should be relatively simple to find and select an additional sub menu option that adjusts the text size to accommodate your needs.
| Operating System | Browser | Instructions |
| PC Windows | Internet Explorer 3 and 4 | View > Fonts |
| PC Windows | Internet Explorer 5+ | View > Text Size |
| PC Windows | K-meleon | View > Increase Font / Decrease Font |
| PC Windows | Mozilla | View > Increase Text Size / Decrease Text Size |
| PC Windows | Netscape 6 | View > Text Size |
| PC Windows | Netscape 7 | View > Text Zoom |
| PC Windows | Opera 5 and 6 | Use dropdown menu on 'progress' bar |
| PC Windows | Opera 7 | View > Zoom |
| MAC | I-Cab | View > Font Size |
| MAC | Internet Explorer 4.5 | View > Text Size |
| MAC | Internet Explorer 5+ | View > Text Zoom |
| MAC | Netscape 4 | View > Increase/Decrease Font Size |
| MAC | Netscape 7 | View > Text Zoom |
| MAC | Opera 5 and 6 | Use dropdown menu on 'progress' bar |
| MAC | OmniWeb 4 | Browser > Bigger Text / Smaller Text |
| MAC | Safari | View > Text Size |
PDF Documents
Adobe's Acrobat programme retains colours, fonts and layout across different computers and operating systems. Some files on this site are stored as Adobe Acrobat files. They have a file extension (the last 3 letters of the file name following the full point) of PDF, which stands for portable document format.
Download the latest free version from Adobe:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html