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Welcome to the Australian Centre for Student Equity and Success

The Australian Centre for Student Equity and Success acknowledges Indigenous peoples across Australia as the Traditional Owners of the lands on which the nation’s campuses are situated. With a history spanning more than 60,000 years as the original educators, Indigenous peoples hold a unique place in our nation. We recognise the importance of their knowledge and culture, and reflect the principles of participation, equity, and cultural respect in our work. We pay our respects to Elders past, present, and future, and consider it an honour to learn from our Indigenous colleagues, partners, and friends.

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Accessibility

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Our commitment to accessibility

We have planned, designed, and developed this website with web accessibility principles in consideration. Our efforts are baselined against WCAG 2.1 AA.

Please note, this website has not undergone formal compliance for accessibility. We have focused our efforts on the POUR principles (Perceivable, Operable, Understandable, and Robust).

At ACSES, we are committed to continuous improvement in all of our work—including accessibility. We will continuously strive to provide an inclusive digital experience to make our content accessible to users of all abilities, including those with disabilities. We welcome feedback and are committed to ongoing improvements to enhance usability and accessibility for all visitors.

Feedback

We welcome your feedback on the accessibility of our website. Please let us know if you encounter accessibility barriers by emailing us at acses@curtin.edu.au.

We try to respond to feedback within five business days.

 

Technical specification

Our website’s accessibility relies on the following technologies to work with the particular combination of web browser and any assistive technologies or plugins installed on your computer:

  • HTML
  • WAI-ARIA
  • CSS
  • JavaScript

 

Assessment approach

The accessibility of our website has been reviewed using the following approaches:

  • Quality assurance process throughout the design and development phases
  • Usage of multiple evaluation tools to discover opportunities and resolve issues

 

Known problems with our site’s accessibility

  • Resource downloads with file types of PDF, XLS or Word documents may not work correctly with screen readers
  • External links some websites we link to may not have been tested for their accessibility
  • The Interactive Tool within the Data menu is not accessible

 

Date

This statement was created on 4 June 2024. We aim to regularly update this as we make improvements or flag issues.