About this site

Accessibility

The Melbourne Airport Web site has been designed to conform to level Double-A of the W3C-WAI Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0. We have also strived to achieve level Triple-A conformance for the Web site.

Standards-compliant code

The Melbourne Airport Web site is designed for compatibility with Web standards ensuring maximum compatibility with current and future browsers and platforms.

Where possible the Web site conforms to the W3C XHTML 1.1 and CSS specifications.

Recommended browsers

Content and presentation are separated on the Melbourne Airport Web site via the use of CSS. This means that the content is accessible in any internet device, even if it does not understand CSS.

A modern Web browser is recommended to view the intended visual presentation of the Melbourne Airport Web site: older browsers offer poor support for standards and often incorrectly interpret newer CSS code. For this reason, these browsers are presented with the unstyled plain content instead.

Our recommended browsers are Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer 6.

To download Mozilla Firefox, click the Get Firefox button.

To download Internet Explorer, click the Get Internet Explorer button.

Recommended plug-ins

The Melbourne Airport Web site utilises Macromedia Flash for the presentation of some interactive content, such as:

• Airport development - Interactive timeline
• Interactive map of the airport
• Live Flight Radar
• Melbourne Direct Web site

To view this content, you will need the Macromedia Flash MX plug-in, which is a free download available from the Macromedia Web site.

To install the Flash plug-in (a 480k download) in your browser, click the Get Flash button.

Web site credits

The Melbourne Airport Web site was designed and developed by Reactive Media, an award-winning Melbourne based Web design and development firm. For more information please contact Reactive Media by visiting www.reactive.com.