The City of Stirling is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive, accessible and engaged community through our services and facilities.
What is web accessibility?
Web accessibility is the term used to describe how easily people can access a place or service.
The City follows the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 which covers a range of recommendations for making website content more accessible. These guidelines address accessibility of website content across devices.
The City utilises data governance software that detects issues with accessibility across the www.stirling.wa.gov.au domain. This ensures proactive remediation of accessibility issues not stated on the exclusions list.
Text on this site can be resized by:
- Using the zoom and increase font options from your browser’s menu
- Pressing ctrl key (Microsoft Windows) or the Apple key (Mac OS) on your keyboard and using the + or – to zoom in or out
- Pressing ctrl on your keyboard and scrolling with your mouse wheel.
This website allows full tab-based navigation:
- When you hold down on the menu item or hyperlink, press enter to activate
- Hold down the shift and tab keys to reverse the tab cycle
- At the top of each page there are options to skip to various areas of the page. This is to assist users of screen readers and those who are zooming in to view the website.
If you use assistive software such as Job Access with Speech (JAWS) or NonVisual Desktop Access (NVDA), you can use features to:
- Present link lists
- Present headings
- Shift the focus directly to tables and lists in a page.
The City of Stirling is committed to ensuring that all video content is accessible and aims to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) to level AA wherever possible.
The City ensures that all videos uploaded to YouTube are transcribed. However, as YouTube is a third-party product, technical issues may occur that are out of our control, such as links and headings that are either empty or nonsensical.
For those with vision impairments, we have endeavoured to maximise the ability to use a screen reader with this website. Visitors using recent versions of screen readers can navigate using the following keystrokes:
Headings
- H to navigate forwards through the headings
- Shift + H to navigate backwards through the headings
- 1 to navigate to the next level 1 heading (or a number between 1 and 6 to navigate to the next heading on this level)
- Shift + 1 to navigate to the previous level 1 heading (or a number between 1 and 6 to navigate to the previous heading on this level)
- Insert + F6 to provide a list of all headings.
Links
Press:
- Tab key to proceed through the links or shift + tab to cycle backwards through the links
- Insert + F7 to provide a list of all links.
Landmarks
Using JAWS® Versions 10-12, you can use the keyboard navigation in virtual mode:
- ; (semicolon) for next landmark
- Shift + ; (semicolon) for previous landmark
- Ctrl + insert + ; (semicolon) for a list of landmarks
Using NVDA 2011.2 the landmark keyboard combination in virtual buffer mode:
- D for next landmark
- Shift + D for previous landmark.
Using NVDA + F7VoiceOver you can navigate a page via landmarks by:
- Choosing landmarks in the web rotor, then finger flicking up or down to move to the next or previous landmark.
Disclaimer
Third party applications
The City is not responsible for third-party applications or how they access the information on the www.stirling.wa.gov.au website, such as but not limited to, JAWS and NVDA other screen-reading software or devices.
Third party applications on this website include:
- Big Red Sky (current job vacancies, tenders and applications)
- Intramaps (online mapping system)
- Online payments (Westpac Australia)
- eProperty services
- Apet360
- Google Maps
- Klaviyo
- YouTube
- Facebook Pixel
- Google Tag Manager
- Grant Finder
- Localised
- Woobox
- Security features for online forms including captcha.
