Accessibility

Accessibility statement

We want this site to be usable by everyone, including people using a screen reader, a keyboard only, magnification, or a browser set to their own colours and text size. This page says what we have done, what we know is not yet right, and how to tell us when you hit a barrier.

Last reviewed 7 September 2026.

Our target

WCAG 2.2 Level AA.

We aim to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.2 at Level AA, the standard Australian government sites work to. We have not yet commissioned an independent audit, so we describe this as our target and our current best effort rather than as certified conformance. When an audit is done, its findings and their status will be published here.

What is in place

What we have built in.

Keyboard operation. Every interactive control, including navigation, the readiness check, the calculator inputs and the sortable and expandable tables, can be reached and operated with a keyboard, and a visible focus outline shows where you are.
Your colours, not ours. The site follows your device's light or dark setting. Colour is never the only way information is conveyed: increases and decreases carry a sign as well as a colour, and unavailable data is spelled out in words rather than shown as a blank.
Your text size. Layouts are built in relative units, so browser zoom and enlarged default text reflow the page instead of clipping it.
Reduced motion. If your device asks for reduced motion, animations and transitions are switched off.
Structure a screen reader can follow. Real headings in order, real tables with header cells, real form labels, landmark regions, and a language attribute on every page.
Wide content scrolls in place. Large tables scroll within their own container so the page itself never scrolls sideways.
Plain English. We write for a business reader, not a lawyer. Where a legal or technical term is unavoidable, it is explained the first time it appears.

Known gaps

What we know is not right yet.

No independent accessibility audit has been carried out. Everything above is our own assessment.
The data tables are wide. They are keyboard accessible and scroll correctly, but reading a many-column table with a screen reader is slower than it should be. A simplified single-record view is planned.
Some documents in the governance kit are supplied as Word and Excel files. Their accessibility depends on the program you open them in, and they have not been separately tested for screen reader use. If you need a different format, ask and we will provide one.
The site has no search function yet, which makes finding a specific figure harder than it should be for everyone.

We list these because a statement that claims everything is fine is not worth reading. If you find something not on this list, it is a gap we do not know about, and we would like to.

Tell us

If something here does not work for you.

Email hello@aieconomyindex.com.au with the page and what happened. Tell us what you were trying to do and what got in the way. You do not need to know the technical cause or the name of the guideline.

We aim to reply within five business days. If a fix will take longer than that, we will tell you when to expect it, and we will give you the information you were after by another means in the meantime.

If you are not satisfied with how we respond, you can make a complaint to the Australian Human Rights Commission, which handles complaints under the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (Cth). Details are at humanrights.gov.au/complaints.