Our policy is to make this site as accessible as possible for users with visual, hearing, physical, cognitive or neurological disabilities. We have extensively followed the guidelines on the accessible design of websites developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

While accessibility is particularly important for people with the disabilities listed above, accessible websites benefit everyone who uses them.

On this site:

• graphics have been labelled with alternative text tags
• tables have been marked up to be accessible for screen readers wherever possible
• navigation has been kept consistent
• language and presentation has been kept simple
• strobing or excessively flickering designs have been avoided.

PDF documents can be difficult to access for users with impaired vision reliant on screen reader software. We plan to progressively improve the accessibility of PDFs on our site.

Where possible, PDF documents have been formatted to be compatible with screen reader software. If you're having trouble accessing a particular PDF with a screen reader, you can either:

• Try the Adobe accessibility website, which provides tools that convert PDF documents into either HTML or ASCII text, which can then be read by a number of common screen reader programs. These tools approximate the logical reading order of the text in an Adobe PDF document and reformat it into a single column of text.
• Contact the NPWS via the website feedback form, providing the details of the PDF, and it can be converted to text and emailed to you.

General Information

Must allow Pop-Up windows

To successfully use this website, your web browser must be configured to allow popup windows. These pop-up windows contain information for each available catchments. Add "nationalparks.nsw.gov.au" to your exception list.

PDF files

Throughout this site you'll find a wide variety of documents in PDF format. This format makes it quick and easy for you to read or download documents such as plans and reports with all of their colour, layout and images intact.

Links to PDFs on the NPWS site look like this:

Australian bustard - species profile (PDF - 416KB)

and include the total file size in brackets. PDF documents are often larger than normal web pages, so may take longer to open.

Viewing a PDF

If you are unable to view PDF documents it may be because you don't have the free Adobe Acrobat Reader software installed on your computer. You can download Acrobat Reader from the Adobe website. PDF documents on this website can be opened with Acrobat Reader version 4.0 or above. If you are using an older version of Acrobat Reader, you can upgrade at the Adobe site - later versions often include more useful features and options for users.

Once you have installed Acrobat Reader, it should open whenever you click on a link to a PDF document. If you find a PDF document you want to refer back to, you can save a copy on your own computer. To do this, instead of clicking to open the document, right click (or on a Mac, click and hold), then select "Save Target As..." and choose a location to save the document. If you have already opened the document, click the Save button in the top left corner of the Acrobat Reader window (it looks like this: ).

Please remember that there are certain copyright conditions in saving an NPWS page or document.

More information
For further details on features, printing and copying PDFs, go to the Adobe website for technical support.

If you're having problems with a PDF document on this site, use the Feedback form to let us know.

See more on PDFs and screen readers above.

Sound files

Sound files on this site usually look something like this:

Hear a cane toad's call (MP3 file - 209KB)

They're recorded in MP3 format and include the total file size in brackets. In most cases, they'll play automatically when you click on the link. If you're having difficulties playing sounds, try one of these links:

• Windows Media (for Microsoft Windows systems)
• iTunes (for Apple Macintosh systems)