Web accessibility

Web standards

The Dowse Art Gallery has designed this website to be as accessible as possible.

The site aims to comply with the following New Zealand Government standards.

This website should display correctly in all common browsers, operating systems and page resolutions; with and without scripting, images and stylesheets; on a PC or Mac; and for people with dial-up as well as broadband connections.

Responsive Web Design

The design of this website will respond to the width of your screen, so that you can easily find and read what you’re looking for. The design will also respond to the size of the text, so you can increase the size as much as you need to.

This website’s conformance with official accessibility guidelines

The website currently has level-AA conformance to the web content accessibility guidelines (WCAG) 2.0. We have audited this website’s accessibility continually while designing and developing it.

How to send feedback on this website’s accessibility

We welcome feedback on the accessibility of this website.

• Email us
• Call us: 04 570 6500

Adjusting the text size

This site has been designed to display correctly when the text size is increased.

• To increase the text size: Hold down the Ctrl key and tap the + key.
• To decrease the text size: Hold down the Ctrl key and tap the – key.

If you have an older browser, you may need to do this differently: look under the View menu (or similar) for ‘Zoom’ or ‘Increase text size’.