To: Professor Alice Tay

President, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission

GPO Box 5218 Sydney 1042

By email: karen.toohey@humanrights.gov.au

From: [name and contact details]

CC: [email for webmaster for site complained of]

CC: email for Blind Citizens Australia <bca@bca.org.au>– please publish details in BCA News

I wish to make a complaint under the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 regarding the web site of:

at the address:

I am blind / I have a vision impairment.

I have attempted to use this site, and it is not equally accessible to me because:

[ ] Images on the site are not labelled with alt text or descriptive text

[ ] Animation is used on the site without a clear option for an accessible alternative

[ ] Frames are used and are not labelled, so my screen reader software cannot deal with them

[ ] Table layout does not make sense reading line by line (as my screen reader does) and no accessible alternative is provided

[ ] Scripts or applets used are not accessible to me and no accessible alternative is clearly provided

[ ] Multimedia elements on the site are not accessible to me because

[ ] Documents on the site are provided in PDF format which is not accessible to me and no accessible alternative is provided

[ ] Other access barriers as follows:

I am aggrieved by this lack of access because I wish to use the site for

[ ] educational purposes

[ ] employment purposes

[ ] access to services

[ ] interest and information

Remedy:

I would be prepared to withdraw my complaint in return for a published commitment:

1. that within three months all elements of the site will comply with the priority one guidelines from the World Wide Web Consortium’s Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (either directly or by provision of an accessible alternative)
2. thereafter, all new content on the site will comply with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines in full (either directly or by provision of an accessible alternative).

Note: This complaint is submitted by email since by reason of my disability I cannot use print on paper. If print on paper is required to constitute a written complaint, I request that, pursuant to section 46P4 of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Act you provide appropriate assistance in reducing the complaint to writing, by printing this email.