Standards

This site was produced to meet New Zealand E-Government Unit Web Guidelines (version 2.1, 11 December 2002), World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) priority 2 requirements, and "Bobby" v.4.0 (version 4 core).

Access Keys

Access keys help you to navigate to commonly used pages in the site without needing to use a mouse or other pointing device. To activate an access key, hold down the ALT key (for PCs) or CONTROL key (for Apple Macintosh) plus the relevant access key shown below (at the same time). For some browsers you may need to press enter to confirm your choice.

The available keyboard shortcuts are:

0 = Accessibility help page

1 = Home page

2 = Visit Us

3 = Heritage

4 = Personal account

5 = Teens

6 = The Reading Experience

7 = What's On

8 = Kids

9 = Sitemap

 [ = Returns the public viewer to the top of the content on the current page