Contact Details

Address: Victoria Park (Main Centre)
61 Kitchener Avenue
Victoria Park 6100

Tel: (08) 9311 8202 or
Toll Free: 1800 847 466
Fax: (08) 9361 8696
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Welcome to the Association for the Blind of WA – Guide Dogs WA

Website Accessibility

Our website has been designed to be accessible to everyone. The website designer, Association for the Blind of WA - Guide Dogs WA staff and clients have undertaken intensive usability and accessibility testing during its creation. We are committed to ensuring the website is regularly tested and maintained to ensure the information, wherever possible, is available to everyone. If you encounter any accessibility issues, please contact us.

Recent versions of Microsoft Windows and Mac OS contain many accessibility features that can assist computer users that are blind or vision impaired.

Skip to Content Link

A skip to content link is available at the top of every page. This link enables users with screen reading software to skip over navigation links and jump directly to the textual content of a page.

Adjusting the Text Size

This website has 3 inbuilt text sizes. You can change the text size of the content according to your preferences. A cookie remembers your preferences when you return to the site on subsequent occasions.

You can also use the following options within your browser to adjust text size:

Internet Explorer - Windows 98/ME/2000/XP

  1. Go to the ‘View' pull-down menu
  2. Go to ‘Text Size'
  3. A pop-up menu should appear showing you five different text sizes. Select ‘Larger' or ‘Largest' to make the text larger. This will also increase the size on many other Internet sites.

Internet Explorer - Windows Vista

  1. Hold down the CTRL key on your keyboard
  2. Press the ‘+' key to make the text bigger or the ‘-' key to make the text smaller
  3. Keep repeating step 2 until the text is at a suitable size

Safari - Mac OS

  1. Hold down the ‘Apple' key and press the ‘+' key
  2. Repeat until the text is at a suitable large

Adjusting the Colours

This website has an inbuilt high contrast, plain text template. A cookie remembers your contrast settings and applies the right template when you return to the site. All design elements are removed from the site in this template.

You can also use the following options within your browser to adjust contrast:

Internet Explorer - Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/Vista

  1. Go to the ‘Tools' pull-down menu
  2. Select ‘Internet Options'
  3. In the bottom-left hand corner you will see a ‘Colors' button. Select this button
  4. Select the colours that you want by selecting the current colour and then select a new colour
  5. Select OK on the ‘Colors' screen
  6. Select OK on the ‘Internet Optons' screen.

Safari - Mac OS

The easiest way to change the colours is to use the built-in ‘reverse' feature in Mac OS 10.4 Tiger or higher. This will reverse all colours on the screen. This option can be selected by holding down the ‘CTRL', ‘Option' and ‘Apple' keys while pressing the number ‘8'

Repeat step 1 to change the colours back to normal.

Text-to-Speech Access

Windows 98/2000/XP/Vista:

You can purchase an additional software program such as JAWS which will allow your computer to read aloud web pages to you. For more information, please contact us.

Mac OS:

Mac OS 10.4 Tiger and higher have a built-in program called VoiceOver which can read aloud text on your computer screen, including web pages. To turn on VoiceOver, hold down the ‘Apple' key and press the ‘F5' key. Further information about VoiceOver is available on the Apple website.