Accessibility options for users who either cannot use a mouse or prefer not to use one.  Allows for navigating the site using the keyboard instead.

Access Keys

Most browsers (Internet Explorer 4+ (PC), Internet Explorer 5+ (MAC), Mozilla, Firefox, Netscape 6+, Opera 7) support jumping to specific links by typing keys defined on the web site.

On Windows, you can press ALT + an access key; on Macintosh, you can press Control + an access key.

General website browsing:

• Access key 0 - Accessibility
• Access key 1 - Home
• Access key 2 - Student Home
• Access key 3 - Staff Home
• Access key 4 - Alumni Home
• Access key 5 - Organisational Unit Home
• Access key 6 - Affiliated Unit Home
• Access key 7 - UQ Visitors
• Access key 8 - External Home
• Access key 9 - HelpDesk Home
• Access key c - Contact Us
• Access key d - Disclaimer
• Access key b - Feedback Email
• Access key m - Sitemap
• Access key t - Terms and Conditions
• Access key p - Privacy

Homepage specific (for use with navigation tabs):

• Access key e - Student Tab
• Access key a - Staff Tab
• Access key f - Affiliated Unit Tab
• Access key o - Organisational Unit Tab
• Access key u - Alumni Tab
• Access key s - External Tab

Browser Keystrokes On A PC

For Internet Explorer you have to press Alt + the number/letter + Enter. For Firefox 2+ you have to press Alt + Shift + the number/letter.

Links

Most links have title attributes which describe the link in greater detail, unless the text of the link already fully describes the target.

Images

All content images on this site include descriptive ALT attributes. Purely decorative graphics include null ALT attributes.

Help us make this site more accessible

If you use accessibility features, we'd like to hear from you to find out your experiences of using this site and your views on how we can best improve it. Please contact info@uqconnect.net.

Page revised 20-04-2012