Accessibility
The Department of Housing has designed this website to comply with the accessibility requirements as set out in the Guildelines for State Government Websites.
To ensure that the website is accessible for all users the Department has included: text size increase/decrease capabilities, print page options and a sitemap.
Further information on the accessibility guidelines can be found on the Office of e-Government website.
How to make our website work for you
Use your browser to view our website the way you want to.
You can usually change the settings in your web browser to view web pages differently, to use different colours and to change the size of the text used by a website.
Here are some links to webpages describing how to do this for the most common browsers:
Accessibility tools for Microsoft products (external website)
Accessibility features in Firefox (external website)
Accessibility in Opera (external website)
Safari - Support (external website)
Tools to aid with viewing website documentation
Sometimes when attempting to view certain publications, forms or documents on our website, you may need special software to access them successfully.
Here are some links to websites from which you can download this software free of charge:
- Microsoft Word and Excel file viewing software:
Office online file viewers and convertors (external website)
- PDF (Portable Document Format) viewing software:
Adobe Reader download (external website)
Our website supports many different browsers. If you need to upgrade your browser to a more recent version, here are some links to downloads for the most common ones:
Download Internet Explorer 7 (external website)
Firefox web browser (external website)
Javascript and other programming languages
Javascript forms an important part in the range of tools used to develop this website, as it does with many others. Javascript is enabled by default in all web browsers and is essential for many websites.
You can still access our website if you have Javascript turned off, but please be aware that some facilities may be unavailable if Javascript is not enabled in your web browser.