The Griffith University website is subject to the provisions of the Disability Discrimination Act 1992. As part of our responsibility in this matter Griffith University has implemented measures and will continue to improve the accessibility of the corporate website.
Accessibility initiatives
The current website look and feel has introduced several new accessibility initiatives, including extensive mobile support including HTML5 compatible video and audio.
Guidelines for accessibility
All Griffith websites are obligated to meet all Priority 1 and 2 checkpoints from the World Wide Web Consortiums Web content accessibility guidelines 1.0 .
To meet this target;
- Page templates have been created to enforce coding standards
- A set of standard cascading style sheets has been made for the presentation of content
- Content template documents have been authored to help content-co-ordinators ensure Griffith websites follow best practise for usability
- A Web style guide has been created for the Griffith web development community with guidelines on the use of navigation, text, images, flash, audio/video, document formats, metadata and XHTML markup