About this site

Design and content

This site supports the "Guidelines for Commonwealth Information Published in Electronic Formats, published by Ausinfo, the "Guidelines for Federal and ACT Government Word Wide Web Sites", published by the Privacy Commissioner and the "World Wide Web Access: Disability Discrimination Act Advisory Notes published by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission.

Resolution

This site is best viewed at 800 x 600 resolution for the PC user or 832 x 624 for the Mac user.

Browsers

Older versions of browsers don't support some features of this site. The latest version of your preferred browser is recommended. Below are links to download three popular free browsers.

Portable Document Format (PDF)

Some of the information at this site is in PDF (Portable Document Format).

The current version of Adobe Acrobat Reader is version 5.0. It is important that you have version 5.0 because some PDF documents on this site can only be viewed if you have the this version.

Below is a link to download the free plug-in software which is required to read PDF documents. People with visual disabilities who use adoptive technology for screen reading may access PDF documents on the Web by using Adobe Access.

Rich Text Format (RTF)

The Rich Text Format (RTF) Specification is a method of encoding formatted text and graphics for easy transfer between applications. Currently, users depend on special translation software to move word-processing documents between different MS-DOS®, Windows, OS/2, Macintosh, and Power Macintosh applications.

The RTF Specification provides a format for text and graphics interchange that can be used with different output devices, operating environments, and operating systems. RTF uses the ANSI, PC-8, Macintosh, or IBM PC character set to control the representation and formatting of a document, both on the screen and in print. With the RTF Specification, documents created under different operating systems and with different software applications can be transferred between those operating systems and applications. RTF files created in Word 6.0 (and later) for the Macintosh and Power Macintosh have a file type of "RTF."

Meta tags

The site supports Australian Government Locator Service (AGLS) metadata. The AGLS metadata standard is a set of 19 descriptive elements which government departments and agencies can use to improve the visibility and accessibility of their services and information over the Internet. The AGLS standard is based upon the leading international online resource discovery metadata standard, the Dublin Core standard. Below is a link to the AGLS site.

Accessibility

Commonwealth departments and agencies are required by the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 to ensure that online information and services are accessible by people with disabilities.

The Defence Force Discipline Appeal Tribunal website meets the Government Online standards that relate to access for people with disabilities. The site has drawn on the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). For complete accessibility guidelines see the "Web Content Accessibility Guidelines published by W3C.

The Defence Force Discipline Appeal Tribunal website is the work of many authors and business groups and is a dynamic environment. Therefore, there is always the possibility that accessibility difficulties may be encountered. There may be some data held in non-HTML formats. If there is data that you require and it is in a format that you cannot access, or if you experience any other accessibility difficulties, please advise the Webmaster by emailing query@fedcourt.gov.au or by writing to:

Manager, Systems and Projects
Federal Court of Australia
Court Resources Branch
Level 17, Law Courts Building
Queens Square NSW 2000

This site is "Bobby" approved. Bobby is a free web-based tool that analyzes web pages for their accessibility to people with disabilities, created by the Centre for Applied Special Technology (CAST). A link to the Bobby website is provided below.