About this website

Accessibility features

This site has been designed to meet the World Wide Web Consortium Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and New Zealand Government Web Guidelines. As part of this process we have provided the following keyboard shortcuts to the main sections of the site (for those not using a mouse).

Keyboard shortcuts

Windows: use alt+[number]+Enter to use with IE5 and later. For Netscape 6+ / Firefox just use Alt+[number]. Macintosh: same as above but use 'ctrl' instead of 'alt'.

• 0 = Accessibility features
• 1 = Home page
• 2 = Sitemap
• 3 = Go to search box at top of current page
• 4 = About the Ministry
• 5 = Agencies we fund
• 6 = Projects
• 7 = New Zealand emblems
• 8 = Awards and funding
• 9 = Contact us
• . (a full stop) = Publications
• [ = Skip navigation and jump to start of page content
• / = www.govt.nz

This website has been designed to work best in modern browsers (version 5 and above for Internet Explorer and Netscape ) which support HTML and CSS standards. People using earlier browsers will still be able to see all the content but it will only be formatted as plain html. Please let us know if you have any problems accessing the information on this website.

Is the type too small? Or too large?

If your browser supports text resizing (eg, recent versions of Internet Explorer, Firefox or Opera), you can alter the size of the text on the site to suit your preference. If you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer, go to the View menu at the top of your screen, select Text size, then choose to view with larger or smaller type. For other browsers, consult the browser Help for details on how to resize the text.

Print formatting

Content on the site has been created in a way to allow printing only of the content you require. This means that the printed pages will not contain elements such as site navigation and have been optimised for best readability.

Long documents are sometimes best printed using the Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format which is available on the title page of most key documents. To view and print PDF files you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader.