Australian Government departments and agencies are obliged by the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 to ensure that online information and services are accessible by people with disabilities. There is also the requirement to make online resources accessible to those people with technical constraints, such as older browsers, lower speed internet connections or use of assistive technology.

The Department of Education and Training is committed to ensuring this web site meets best practice guidelines and the priority one requirements of the World Wide Web Consortium Content Accessibility Guidelines. The Raps and Book raps website has been designed to make the site accessible to the widest range of people in the community, in order to meet the Government Online standards that relate to access for people with disabilities or technical constraints with their browsers and internet connections.

For technical reasons and to meet some legal requirements, the Raps and Book raps web site has a limited number of documents that cannot be provided in html format.

Browsing

The information in this site has been sorted into categories. The navigation buttons on the left of the page/screen list these categories. Click on a button to display the full depth and range of information in that area.

Font size

The font size on the screen can be increased or decreased to your preference in your browser by selecting View >> Text size

Alternatively you can use CTRL with the scroll wheel on your mouse.

PDF files

Portable Document Format (PDF) is the open de facto standard for electronic document distribution worldwide. Adobe PDF is a universal file format that preserves all of the fonts, formatting, colours, and graphics of any source document, regardless of the application and platform used to create it.  Adobe PDF files are compact and can be shared, viewed, navigated, and printed exactly as intended by anyone with the free Adobe Acrobat Software.

This format has been employed due to the nature of the documents, and the requirement for preserving their integrity.

Download free Acrobat Reader: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

Windows Media Player and Quicktime Player Help

Some pages include QuickTime video files and Window's Media Player. To view these presentations you will need to have QuickTime Player installed on your computer.

If you are an external user download Apple Quicktime Player from HERE.

If you are an external user download Microsoft Windows Media Player from HERE.