Accessibility

We’re complying with UK web accessibility laws as defined by the Equality Act of 2010 and strive to adhere to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 at level AA.

If you have a visual, hearing, motor or cognitive impairment, you can change the settings on your computer to suit your individual needs.

Guidance on how you can adjust your digital device

Using voice recognition

Windows 10: Go to the Ease of Access settings on your computer. Select Speech. Turn on the Turn on Speech Recognition switch.

macOS: Select Apple menu, then System Settings and click Accessibility. In Accessibility settings, click Voice Control. Turn on Voice Control.

Making text bigger on your screen

Windows 10: Go to the Ease of Access settings. Select Display. Under Make text bigger on the Display tab, drag the slider to the right to increase the size of the sample text. Select Apply.

macOS: Apps: Press Command-Plus (+) or Command-Minus (–) to adjust the text size. Desktop: Control-click the desktop, choose Show View Options, click the “Text size” pop-up menu, then choose a text size.

Changing your desktop background colour

Windows 10: Go to the Ease of Access settings on your computer. Select Colour filters. Turn on the Turn on colour filters switch. Select one of the available colour filters.

macOS: Select Apple menu icon, then click System Preferences. Select Accessibility. Click on Display, then click on Colour filters. Select the Enable Colour Filters check box. Select the filter you want.

Magnifying the screen

Windows 10: Go to the Ease of Access settings on your computer. Select Magnifier. Turn on the Turn on Magnifier switch.

macOS: Select Apple menu, System Settings, then click Accessibility in the sidebar, then click Zoom on the right.

Using a screen reader

Windows 10: Go to the Ease of Access settings on your computer. Select Narrator. Turn on the Turn on Narrator switch.

macOS: Select Apple menu, then System Settings and click Accessibility. In Accessibility settings, click VoiceOver. Turn on VoiceOver.

Support for people with dyslexia

Windows and macOS: To facilitate ease of reading you can add the OpenDyslexic, Helperbird, Dyslex.ai or Dyslex.ie extensions to Chrome and Safari. There are also dyslexic-friendly fonts that you can download for free like OpenDyslexic, Lexend, Comic Sans, Arial, Tahoma, Verdana, Gothic, Trebuchet, Bookman, Courier, Georgia, Helvetica, Impact, Times.

We welcome feedback on the accessibility of our website. We’re here to support you if you have any questions, feedback, require an alternative format of a document or would like to report an accessibility issue.

Contact us at accessibility@cancer.org.uk