This site is produced by the Small Business Development Corporation, and is designed to be as accessible to as many users as possible.

The accessibility features available on this site include:

• relative text sizing, able to be resized in most browsers
• text equivalents of important non-text items, including alt text describing the content of inline images
• content organised so it has logical flow without stylesheets
• header elements to convey document structure
• use of row and column headers in tables
• a logical tab order to navigate using assistive technologies.

Every effort has been made to ensure the site meets Level A of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.

Resizing text

You can make the text larger or smaller on this site by changing the settings on your computer or by holding the Ctrl button and the +/- button at the same time.

To check which internet browser is installed on your machine:

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

• Microsoft Internet Explorer  - Select View menu, click on Text size and choose a size from the options Largest to Smallest.
• FireFox - Select View menu, click on zoom and choose either zoom in or zoom out.
• Opera - Select View menu, click on Zoom, and then select a size from the list.
• Safari - Select View menu and click Make Text Bigger to increase the font size or Make Text Smaller to reduce the font size.
• Netscape 6.0, and 4.0 - Select Edit menu and click on Preferences. 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).

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Printing pages on this site

Every page is "printer friendly" on this website. Simply use the Print function of your browser or the print button (at the top right of the content) to print whichever page you like.

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Navigation

The site has the following navigational features to aid you in your visiting experience:

• Main Menu
• Secondary Menu
• Search Functions - Search the website to find what you want directly with keywords.
• Breadcrumbs - Shows the location of the page that you are viewing within the site page hierarchy.

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Accessing and downloading files on this website

Throughout this website there may be some documents and files that may require you to install additional software on your computer. In most cases you are not required to install anything as most computers' browsers are now configured to automatically open or download the documents and files on this website, when you click on a link to content that is not HTML.

The following is a list of software that you may need to read the documents and files on this website:

• PDF Documents - Adobe Reader
• Microsoft Word Documents - Microsoft Word Viewer 2003 for Windows, or OpenOffice for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows

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Further Information

Please contact us with any questions relating to the accessibility of this website, or to get alternative formats of information.

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