DATASETS FRONTIER
Accessibility
We want this site usable by everyone, including people using screen readers, keyboard-only navigation, magnification or reduced-motion settings. This page states our target, what we know falls short, and how to tell us. It starts on 7 November 2026.
Our target
We aim to conform to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, WCAG 2.2, at level AA. The guidelines are published by the W3C at w3.org/TR/WCAG22 . In practice our pages use semantic structure, keyboard-reachable controls, visible focus, and text alternatives for meaningful images.
Reading mode
Every page of the site has a switch at the top, in the header, labelled Reading mode (it needs JavaScript). Turning it on shows the text below the opening banner, and the footer, in larger, wider-spaced type on a cream background with dark text, with shorter lines, left-aligned text and emphasis in upright bold instead of italics; the header and the opening banner keep their dark look. It uses the same plain sans-serif typeface as the rest of the site. Your browser remembers the choice for the next page and the next visit, and turning the switch off restores the standard display. The switch works with a keyboard and tells a screen reader whether it is on. The choice stays in your browser and is never sent to us (see the Cookies page).
Known limits
Some parts of the service fall short of the target while it matures: dense evidence tables can be hard to navigate with a screen reader, and chart-like diagrams are described in text, with keyboard navigation through them still limited. We fix known barriers as the service matures and list the open ones here when they are identified. These compliance pages are built with WCAG 2.2 AA as the target; an independent audit has not been carried out.
Reporting a barrier
If you hit a barrier, email us at [email protected] (see the Privacy contact page). Tell us the page, what you were trying to do, and what went wrong; we answer accessibility reports within 30 days and treat a barrier as a defect, not a favour. If you cannot use part of the site, we will give you the information another way.
The law
We aim to meet our obligations under the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (Cth), which makes it unlawful to discriminate on the ground of disability in providing services, including in the manner in which they are provided. The Australian Human Rights Commission's web accessibility guidance and the WCAG standard inform how we build and test. You can also complain to the Australian Human Rights Commission, or to Anti-Discrimination NSW, about an access barrier.