W3C

The website of the Penang Botanical Garden Department provides facilities for disabled people with disabilities. The W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 are designed to make the Penang Botanical Garden Department's website user-friendly for people with disabilities.

A) The visually impaired user

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1. Before you can use this component, you must download the MS Speech API. If you're using Windows 2000, it's likely that your system already has this component.

2. You also need to download at least one Speech engine. Speech engine is the 'voice' of a man or woman, who will speak in English or other languages.

For further instructions on using this component, please click here.

B) Color blind users;

For color-blind users, there are several color options available on the top of each page of the Penang Botanical Garden Department's website. Users can choose the color from the color selection provided and the template color of the Penang Botanical Garden Department's website will change immediately.

C) Elderly users;

For elderly users, the Penang Botanical Garden Department's website provides a variety of text size options. The text size option is displayed in the top of each page of the Penang Botanical Garden Department's website. Users can choose whether to choose larger or smaller text sizes, as appropriate.