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Meeting accessibility guidelines is an ongoing process and we will continue to work toward improving accessibility. </p> <p><strong>Video</strong> </p> <p> All videos shown on this website are shown via Youtube. Closed captions are provided for all videos which have spoken words. Watch videos via the<br /> Youtube channel <a href="http://youtube.com/parksvictoria">http://youtube.com/parksvictoria</a> to enable closed captions. </p> <p><strong>PDFs</strong> </p> <p> Some material on our website is provided in Portable Document Format (PDF). To view or print a PDF you will need to have a PDF reader installed. Free programs are available to read PDFs. </p> <p> We understand that some users may still find accessing PDF files difficult and havetaken steps to ensure that alternative formats are available wherever possible. However some older PDFs, those containing complex statistics and data tables and those scanned from older documents produced before there were digital files – cannot be made fully accessible. </p> <p><strong>Accessibility help - contact us</strong> </p> <p> Our website is composed of the work of many different authors. While we aim to meet the accessibility guidelines and strive to seek solutions to ensure all areas of the website meet the highest accessibility level possible, difficulties may be encountered. </p> <p> If you experience any accessibility or usability issue while using our website please <a href="./?a=98">contact us</a>. </p> <h2 class="h3"> Accessibility tips </h2> <h3 class="h4" id="content-heading-15"> Changing text appearance </h3> <p> All pages on this website include icons to allow the text size to be changed quickly and easily. 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