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To find out more about our website and its features please select from the links below.

Searching and navigation options

Navigation - how to find your way around

Search - how the search tool works

Site map - an index of the pages within our site

Access keys - how to access certain information using your keyboard

Skip links - how to navigate quickly around a page using assistive technology

Site features

Accessibility

Text resizing

Please contact us if you require further help. We welcome your feedback.

This website contains various types of navigation which you can use to move through the site. The diagram below highlights this navigation, followed by text descriptions of each of the areas.

Utility navigation

The first level of navigation for all pages on this site is the utility navigation at the top of each page.

From here you can go to:

Home - the Schoolies home page
Contact us - contact information for Schoolies
Help - tips for using this website. ← you are here
Sitemap - a structured index of the resources within our site

Primary navigation

The next level of navigation is the primary navigation, which is directly under the horizontal image banner on each page.

Each section contains related information. To view the contents of a section move your mouse over the link to view a list of topics and select the topic you require.

Secondary navigation

If a lot of information is contained within a section of the site, secondary navigation will be introduced. This secondary navigation will be specific to each section on the site, and will be found in the left-hand column of a page.

Breadcrumbs

Breadcrumbs offer further help with navigation. They show the shortest path from our homepage to the page you are currently at. Breadcrumbs allow you to link to any page along that path. The page you are on, however, will not be linked.

Footer

From the footer you can link to our legal notices and information on the access keys used on this site. A link is also provided to the Queensland Government website, the main government site that provides access to Queensland Government information and services online.

Access keys

Access keys have been included to assist users with disabilities to access certain information using only the keyboard. Also known as keyboard shortcuts, they allow you to move quickly to sections and links on a page without the need for a mouse. Find out what access keys are used on this site.

Skip links

If you are using an assistive technology such as a screen reader to browse this site, skip links are provided at the beginning of the page to allow you to move quickly to key information such as the primary navigation, secondary navigation or content. The links are not visible in a graphical browser.

Logical tab order

This website has a logical tab order for navigating without a mouse. Use the tab key on your keyboard to move to the next link or field. Use shift-tab to move backwards, and the enter key to follow links and submit forms. Most browsers support these functions.

Search

The site search facility can be found in the top right hand corner of all web pages on this site.

To perform a search, enter one or more words in the search box and select ‘go’ (or press the 'enter' key on your keyboard).

As the search tool is insensitive to case, there is no need to use capital letters. Using words such as a, an, the or of will not improve the results of the search.

Any documents containing all your words will be displayed first, followed by documents that contain some of your words.

Each result will include:

a number indicating its position in the ranking
the document title shown as a link that can be selected
a short summary of the document
the size of the document

Accessibility

This site has been designed and developed to ensure that its content is available to as many users as possible, including:

people with disabilities who may use assistive technologies;
those with slower internet connections or less than state of the art equipment;
rural and regional users; and
those with non-PC internet devices including hand held devices and mobile phones.

The accessibility features available on this site include:

access keys to access certain information using your keyboard;
skip links and a logical tab order to navigate using assistive technologies;
instructions for resizing text; and
the consistent user experience standard.

Resizing text

You can make the text larger or smaller on this site, or on any website you visit by changing the settings on your computer.

To check which version of Internet browser is installed on your machine:

open your browser
select Help from the top menu of your browser
select About (followed by your browser name) from the drop down list.

The screen that comes up will display which browser and version you are using.

How to change the text size in:

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 or 6.0: Select View, select Text size from the menu and choose a size from the options Largest to Smallest.
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.2 (Macintosh): Click View, select Text Zoom and choose a size from the options 50% - 300% or Larger or Smaller.
Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0: Select View, select Internet Options from the menu. Choose Fonts and change the size to Small or Large.
Netscape 6.0, and 4.0: Select Edit and select Preferences from the menu, a new window will open. Select Appearance from the left hand side menu within the new window. Under Fonts reset the size (for example, 10, 12, 14 and so on).
Mozilla: Select View, select Text Zoom from the menu and choose a percentage size or select Larger or Smaller.
Opera: Select View and select Zoom from the menu, and then select a size from the list.
Safari: Select View and then select Make Text Bigger to increase the font size or Make Text Smaller to reduce the font size.; OR to add and use shortcuts in the address bar — Select View and then select Text size, two new buttons will appear next to the refresh button, a small A and a larger A. Select the large A to increase the font size or the small A to reduce it.

Consistent user experience

The Queensland Government has developed a consistent user experience standard, which is used on all government websites.

The purpose of the standard is to ensure that visitors:

can find the information they need quickly and easily;
do not have to learn new navigation methods when using different agency sites; and
can move from one site to another with familiarity.

To make this consistent experience a reality, the standard requires that:

agency web pages are laid out consistently, with elements such as the navigation, search button and agency name always in the same place;
navigation is based on what visitors are likely to be looking for, rather than on how departments are organised; and
the underlying techniques used to create the pages ensure they are accessible to as many people as possible.

Last updated: 19 June 2008