Accessibility Testing and Improvements
We conducted an accessibility test using WAVE in January 2025. WAVE is a comprehensive suite of tools designed to enhance web content accessibility, offering checks for compliance with WCAG 2.2 guidelines. While WAVE identified no accessibility issues across our website, we acknowledge that automated tools only represent a part of WCAG compliance and that true accessibility can only be verified through human testing.
Further human testing revealed areas requiring improvement. We are actively working toward making our website fully accessible and are consulting with Centre for Accessibility Australia to achieve this goal.
Identified Issues and Actions Taken
Fact Sheets in PDF format are not fully accessible. To address this, we will provide Word versions as an alternative very soon.
LinkedIn Icon: The LinkedIn icon currently opens in a new window, which may pose accessibility challenges. We are reviewing this to enhance usability.
Current Compliance
Our site currently conforms to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0, established by the World Wide Web Consortium’s Web Accessibility Initiative (W3C WAI).
Ongoing Enhancements
Content
We are dedicated to ensuring our content is easy to read and understand.
Images and design
All images have alt tags.
Videos
Our videos have Closed Captions and a full descriptive text transcript is made available for download.
Feedback
Please contact us at ahead@monash.edu with your feedback. We will use your comments to improve and make sure our website works for everyone.