Accessibility statement

Last updated: September 7, 2026

Diabetes Academia aims for medical information for patients to be readable by anyone, including people who use a screen reader, the keyboard as their only means of navigation, or greatly enlarged text. This page describes the real state of things, not an intention.

In short

  • The site follows WCAG 2.2, level AA. At the evaluation of September 7, 2026 it is largely conformant.
  • The evaluation is a self-assessment, with automated tools and manual checks, not by an external body.
  • Text follows the default font size chosen in the browser and scales proportionally.
  • Every active element can be reached with the keyboard, and the focused element has a visible outline.
  • Known limitations are listed openly below, not hidden.
  • Any problem can be reported through the contact form, anonymously, in your language.

1. Level of conformance

The site follows WCAG 2.2, level AA (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.2, W3C Recommendation of October 5, 2023). At the evaluation of September 7, 2026 the site is largely conformant: the criteria that can be checked automatically are met, and the known limitations are listed in section 6.

The site is private and international, so it has no legal obligation to conform and no enforcement procedure before a national authority. The statement follows the structure of standard EN 301 549 v3.2.1, section 9, because that structure says plainly what works and what does not.

2. What was checked and how

The evaluation is a self-assessment, carried out with automated tools and manual checks, not by an external body.

  • Accessibility violations: axe-core 4 with Chromium, on 277 pages — 0.
  • HTML validity: html-validate, on 1710 pages — 0 errors.
  • Accessible names and landmarks: the accessibility tree, 42 pages across 14 languages, 2159 controls — 0 without a name.
  • Contrast: every color pair in the theme — above 4.5:1.
  • Performance and accessibility: Lighthouse 12.8, mobile and desktop — 98–100.
  • Browser support: MDN compatibility data, across 166 CSS features.
  • Text size: root font enlarged to 200%, on 276 pages, at 360 px and at 320 px — no clipped text on any page.

3. Text size

The site follows the default font size chosen in the browser. Anyone who sets text larger than the default 16 px sees the whole site enlarged proportionally: headings, tables, calculators, footnotes.

The browser's ordinary zoom works independently, up to 200% and beyond, without loss of content (WCAG 2.2, criterion 1.4.4).

4. Keyboard and screen readers

Every active element can be reached with the keyboard, and the focused element has a visible outline (criterion 2.4.7). Every page has a "Skip to content" link, marked landmarks — header, navigation, main content, footer — and a single level 1 heading, with no skipped levels.

The names a screen reader speaks are in the language of the page, in all 14 languages.

5. Browsers in which the site works fully

Chrome and Edge from version 105, Firefox from 121, Safari from 18.2, Samsung Internet from 20. Below these versions the page stays readable and navigable, but a few visual details are missing.

6. Known limitations

  • No dark theme. The site has a single, light theme, declared explicitly, so that phone browsers do not invert it automatically and unpredictably.
  • Screen readers have not been tested with real users. What was checked is the source they read from, the browser's accessibility tree, not the experience with NVDA, JAWS or VoiceOver.
  • Printing from Firefox: a paragraph may be left with a single line at the end of a page, because the CSS properties that control this are not implemented there.
  • The message box in the contact form cannot be resized on iPhone, because Safari on iOS ignores the resize property. The box has a sufficient minimum height and scrolls.
  • Figures have a description in the text and a table of values, but no separate long description.

7. Reporting a problem

Any page that is hard to read or to use can be reported through the site's contact form. The report can be anonymous. The reply comes in the language of the message, within 30 days, if you include a way to contact you.

Date of this statement: September 7, 2026. Last full evaluation: September 7, 2026.