Main Content
Accessibility
The Canadian Diabetes Association website was intentionally designed to be accessible to the widest possible audience. It is fully compatible with popular screen reading software and was designed for those who for a variety of reasons may not be able to use a mouse.
You can adjust the size of nearly all the text on this website by using the font size setting in your browser. For more information, see our guide to changing text size in your browser.
Software you might need
Some documents on this website are available in a PDF format. Adobe Acrobat is needed to open these files. Acrobat is available to download at no charge.
Adobe provides an excellent guide to using PDF documents.
Resizing text
The text size on the website may be increased or decreased for comfortable viewing and reading. Text resizing is a function of the web browser.
Visual guide on how to change text size on different web browsers.
Easy to follow video demonstration for resizing text within web browsers.
Alternative text
Images on diabetes.ca have alternative text attributes, often known as alt text. This means that when an image is used on a web page to convey information its content is also described in the alt text. This means that the image can be understood by text browsers and assistive technologies such as screen readers. If an image is used for simply decorative purposes, the text attribute for the image is left empty in line with accepted best practice.
Colour reliance and image alternatives
The Canadian Diabetes Association website was created with colour impaired visitors in mind. The site was designed and was tested to conform to minimum contrast requirements for visitors with colour-blindness or other ocular impairments that could prevent them from reading text that does not have sufficient colour contrast with background colours. Colour reliance and contrast requirements on the Canadian Diabetes Association web site have been designed to comply with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Priority 2 standard.
When images are disabled for any reason, the entire site was built to be fully navigable and usable.
The website never relies exclusively on colour or image to convey information.