The Canadian Harm Reduction Network
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Accessibility Features
This site is striving to be as accessible as possible according to the guidelines set out by the Web Accessibiltiy Initiative (WAI). If you have difficulties using this site, please contact the webmaster.
At the very top of the page there links to skip to each column of the page. This allows people using assistive divices, such as screen readers, to get to the content they want without going through the entire page. People using regular browsers will not see these accessibility links.
All design specifics of the site are contained in Cascading Style Sheets. This means that the only markup on the page is for the purpose of structure. The page is therefore uncluttered by design tags which impede the use of screen readers and other assistive devises.
About Cookies
In order to use this site, you must have cookies enabled in your browser. That is the default setting so you probably won't have to change anything.
What is a Cookie?
A cookie a small text file that is placed on your computer. The cookie is there because some of this site is translated into French and the site has to keep track of your language choice. It does not record any other information about you or your computer.
Duration of Cookies:
When you close your browser, the cookie is destroyed.
Printing Web Pages
This site is produced using Cascading Style Sheets. There is a special style sheet for printing. Therefore, whenever you click on your browser's print button, the page printed will contain only the main content of the page without menus, images or colour.
Using an Old Browser
This site was built using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS2) for all page layout and design details. CSS2 exists as a World Wide Web Consortium Standard to bring consistency, predictability, and accessibility to all Web browsers and the content produced for viewing in those browsers.
Older browsers were not built to support CSS2, and only recent versions of the major browsers support CSS2 adequately enough to avoid unpredictable layout problems. To get around this challenge, CSS2 can be effectively hidden from browsers incapable of displaying the content properly. If you are seeing the site with the accessible style and nothing happens when you click on 'Switch to Default Style', it is because your browser does not support CSS2.
Our content, in its entirety, can still be accessed from every available commercial browser -- even the first versions of Netscape or IE. Only the design will be different.
