Our Commitment to Web Accessibility

You will find this web accessibility icon on almost every page of our website. 

It can be found in the centre-left of each page.  Clicking on this icon will open our accessibility widget along the left side of your screen.  The widget provides 12 buttons, allowing you to adjust the page to be more accessible to you.  Most of the buttons have multiple options you can toggle through by clicking the button through each option.  The options available are:

• Contrast: This allows you to switch between an inverted colour scheme, a dark high-contrast scheme, and a light high-contrast scheme.
• Highlight Links: This makes all links on every page stand-out by having yellow, underlined text on a black background.
• Bigger Text: This allows you to switch between four different options of larger text.
• Text Spacing: This increases the space between words, offering three levels of increased space.
• Pause Animations: This will disable any animated elements on the page.
• Hide Images: This will remove images from the page, allowing you to see only text.
• Dyslexia Friendly: This will switch all text to the Dyslexic-friendly font, or to a clean, Legible Font.
• Cursor: This offers three alternatives to the standard mouse cursor: a larger version of the normal cursor, a Reading Mask that helps focus on a small part of the page, or a Reading Guide to help you keep track of where you are currently reading.
• Tooltips: This will raise the alt text on images across our website as a tooltip when you hover over the image with a mouse.  Alt text is normally used by screen readers to describe images to their users.
• Line Height: This increases the space between lines, offering three levels of increased space.
• Text Align: This will override the default text alignment on the page, making all text aligned to the Left, Right, Centre, or Justified.
• Saturation: This adjusts the colours on the page, offering Low Saturation, High Saturation, and Desaturated (greyscale).

Under these options is a button to Reset All Accessibility Settings.  This will turn-off all options and return to the default look of the page.
If you have any accessibility issues with this website, please use our online contact form to let us know.  We will endeavour to correct these issues as soon as possible.

Icon Legend
These icons will be displayed on films and events that offer that option.

A

Accessible Toilet Symbol – Designed for people with physical impairments and as a safe space for everyone who uses the bathroom.

Access Support Workers Symbol – Indicates Access Support Workers are available.

Assistive Listening Symbol – Assistive listening systems (augmented hearing, or hearing loop) are installed in many venues and are used to amplify or enhance sound quality via hearing aids, headsets or other devices. They include infrared, loop and FM systems. Portable systems may be available from the same audiovisual equipment suppliers that service conferences and meetings. (Assistive Listening icons is an ear with dots and brackets.)  

Assistance Animal Facilities Symbol – Indicates facilities for assistance animals. Can include seating, water, grass area or that the animal can be left with staff. (Assistance Animal Facilities Symbol icon is a dog and water bowl.)  

Auslan Symbol – Using the Sign Language Interpreting symbol tells Deaf Australian Sign Language (Auslan) users that Auslan interpreting is provided for a performance, film, guided exhibitions tour, forum, workshop or event. Interpreting makes sure Deaf Auslan users can engage with the performance or event using their first language. (Auslan Symbol icons is 2 hands with OKAY shape)

Audio Description Symbol – Audio description enhances live performance, film and visual art for people who are Blind or have low vision. Using a small radio receiver, the person receives a spoken description of visual elements by an audio describer. (Audio Description icon is the letter AD with 3 brackets.)

B

Baby Dummy Icon – Indicates a session or screening that is baby friendly. Cinema lights are just dimmed so you’re not watching in darkness, and if your little one feels the need to cry or make some noise, all the other movie-goers will understand because they have little ones too!

Blind or Low Vision Symbol – This symbol can be used to indicate access for people who are blind or have low vision, including: a guided tour, a path to a nature trail or a scent garden in a park; and a touch/tactile tour or a museum exhibition that may be touched. (Blind or Low Vision Symbol is icon of a person with a white cane.)   

Braille Symbol – Braille indicates that written materials are available in Braille. This could include labelling, marketing, publications and signage at the venue. (Braille Symbol icons is 6 dots like a dice with word BRAILLE underneath.)

C

Captioning (open/closed) – Captioning is available at selected venues, performances, movies, TV shows and online. During the performance, presentation, forum or film, the captions are displayed on a screen, enabling the audience to read what is being said, without obstructing the actors. (Captioning (open/closed) icon is letters CAP in a rounded square.)  

Captioning Open – Open captioning is always in view, and cannot be turned off. (Open captioning symbol is the letters OC.)

Captioning Closed – Closed captioning can usually be activated or deactivated by the viewer, for example in their own home. (Closed captioning symbol is two letter C’s (CC).)

Companion Card Symbol – Indicates that the provider is a Companion Card Affiliate. The Companion Card is issued to people with disability who require lifelong attendant care support, to enable participation at events, activities and venues without incurring the price of a second ticket for their companion. www.companioncard.gov.au (Companion Card Symbol is their logo.)  

E

Easy Read Symbol – Indicates Easy Read is available. Easy Read documents have short, simple sentences with pictures. Easy Read Symbol is a open book with words EASY READ.

G

Guide and Registered Assistance Animals welcome Symbol – Indicates that only registered assistance dogs are welcome. This symbol also refers to Guide dogs. (The icon is a dog with harness.)

H
Hearing Loop – These systems provide easy access to high-quality audio, helping to ensure that people with hearing loss have inclusive and equal access to intelligible sound. (Icon is an ear with pointed diagonal line through.)  

L
Large Print Symbol – Large Print is printed in 18 point or larger text. As well as indicating that large print versions of books, pamphlets, museum guides and theatre programs are available, you can use the symbol on conference or membership forms to indicate that print materials can be provided in large print. Sans serif with good contrast is highly recommended as well as following clear print guidelines for readability. (Large Print Symbol is the words LARGE PRINT.)

Q
Quiet Space Symbol – A space to facilitate the calming or alerting of senses as needed. Quiet spaces are used to avoid or recover from sensory overload or to provide sensory input to meet a sensory need (e.g. tactile, auditory or visual stimulation). Also known as a chill out area or zone. (Quiet Space Symbol is a face with sshh finger near lips.)

R

Relaxed Event Symbol – Relaxed performances, screenings or events are designed to reduce anxiety and create a supportive atmosphere for people with autism spectrum conditions, learning disability and other sensory and communication disorders. There is a relaxed attitude to noise and movement among the audience and some small changes made to the light and sound effects. Audience members can enter and exit the venue throughout the show. (Relaxed Event Symbol is letter R in rounded square.)

Rear Window Captioning System (RWC) is a method for presenting, through captions, a transcript of the audio portion of a film in theatres for deaf and hard-of-hearing people. (Icon is letters RWC.)

S

Subtitles are textual representations of the spoken words, for example translation into English if it is a French film. Subtitles typically include the spoken words, without any additional information about sound effects or background noises. Captions, on the other hand, are designed to provide a more complete textual representation of all the audio content, including speakers, sound effects, (i.e. door creeks open) and other relevant information.

V

Visual Story Symbol – Using both words and pictures, a visual story introduces people on what to expect during an outing to the theatre, cinema or other activities. They should be short, factual, offer positive options to help with fears about triggers such as loud sounds, tell the story briefly, and share any big surprises. (Visual Story icons is an open book with smiley face.)  

Visual Eye Symbol 100, 75 & 50.
100 Symbol – No music or dialogue or all dialogue is open captioned.
75 Symbol – Fully open captioned providing access to spoken word but no background music or sounds.
50 Symbol – May have music or sounds in the background, or may be partly open captioned or scripts and descriptions are given to the audience before the event on request. (Eye icons with numbers inside.)

W

Wheelchair – Indicates access for people with limited mobility, including wheelchair users. For example, the symbol is used to indicate an accessible entrance, bathroom or that a phone is lowered for wheelchair users.

Wheelchair with word TOILET – Indicates access to a assess friendly toilet for people with limited mobility.