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Accessibility

Medicare Australia’s website has been designed to meet Australian Government standards. Australian Government departments and agencies are required by the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 to ensure that online information and services are accessible by people with disabilities. This site aims to conform to level AA of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0External link

If you are having difficulty accessing any online materials produced by Medicare Australia, please contact us through our website feedback emailEmail.

You will need the latest version of Adobe Acrobat readerExternal link on your computer to view certain files within Medicare Australia’s website. The Adobe Acrobat Reader is available free of charge from Adobe’s website.

The Medicare Australia site has been developed to display on all commonly used browsers. The site is designed for a minimum of 800 x 600 and will expand and readjust to browsers above this screen resolution.

For more information please visit:

Accessibility tips

You may find it easier to read the information on our site by changing the font colours or size in your web browser to suit your needs. Some colours are clearer for people than others and web browsers can let you change this setting so that it makes it easier to read a web page. 

Internet Explorer

Note: Changes made to your font colours in this way will affect all web pages you visit, not just our website.

Increasing font size—Internet Explorer

  1. Tools > Internet Options > Accessibility > Ignore font sizes specified on web pages
  2. View > Text Sizes > Larger

Changing font type—Internet Explorer

  1. Tools > Internet Options > Accessibility > Ignore font sizes specified on web pages
  2. Tools > Internet Options > Fonts

Changing font colours—Internet Explorer

  1. Tools > Internet Options > Accessibility > Ignore colors specified on web pages
  2. Tools > Internet Options > Colors

Printing in a larger font—Internet Explorer

  1. File > Print Preview > 150% > Print > Print 

Mozilla Firefox

Note: Changes made to your font colours in this way will affect all web pages you visit, not just our website.

Increasing font size—Mozilla Firefox

  1. View > Text Zoom > Increase

Changing font type—Mozilla Firefox

  1. Tools > Options > Fonts & Colors > Minimum Font Size > 12 (or larger)

Changing font colours—Mozilla Firefox

  1. Tools > Options > Fonts & Colors > Always use my > Colors

Printing in a larger font—Mozilla Firefox

  1. File > Print Preview > Scale > 125%

Below are links to web pages with support information for various web browsers:

Using a speech reader with Portable Document Files (PDF’s)

Medicare Australia provides a lot of information in Portable Document Format (PDF). The file name of a PDF always ends with .pdf and captures formatting information from a variety of desktop publishing applications. This makes it possible to send formatted documents and have them appear on the user’s monitor or printer as they were intended. To view a file in PDF format, you need Adobe Acrobat Reader.

There is an Accessibility Resource CentreExternal link on the Adobe website which provides a number of tools that can help people who use speech readers to read the content of PDF documents. These tools work by converting PDF documents to text, making them readable by speech readers. These tools are free and most require no downloading of files.

To find out more about these tools go to access.adobe.comExternal link.

Last updated: 16 November, 2009