Accessibility
Web accessibility provides an optimal browsing and interaction experience to anyone wishing to access available contents and services. We make our website accessible to persons who are impaired or have difficulty accessing our contents, in keeping with the Québec government website accessibility standards (French only).
Web accessibility also allows:
- persons with injuries to navigate without a mouse
- colour-blind persons to distinguish colours
- persons with poor language skills to better understand texts
- seniors to easily use the website
Meaning of icons
Our website contains icons to simplify information retrieval and comprehension. Here is what they mean:
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Additional information
Checking for accessibility
We use the following tools to check the accessibility of our website:
- NonVisual Desktop Acces (NVDA), version 2023.1
- Google Chrome, version 113.0.5672.92
- Mozilla Firefox, version 112.0.2
In certain cases, we are unable to partially or fully meet accessibility standards:
- The RAMQ abbreviation (this is the name of the Régie de l’assurance maladie du Québec)
- The service point search tool
- Multimedia documents
- Downloadable documents
- Online services
- Dynamic maps
- Complex tables
Browser configuration
Our website is generally compatible with all recent browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Edge), regardless of the platform used (Mac, Linux, Windows, etc.).
For optimal browsing, the following options must be activated in the browser:
- JavaScript
- Pop-up windows
- Cookies
- PDF reader (Adobe Reader, for example)
- SSL protocol
Assistance
If you have difficulty navigating our website, completing a form or accessing some content with computer adaptation technologies, feel free to contact us for help.
In effect: May 2023