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Practical writing on accessibility for healthcare practices
Written for the person who has to act on this, whether that is the practice manager or the developer who maintains the site. Plain language where plain language works, and precision where it matters.
Regulation The HHS web accessibility rule, and what your practice actually has to do Most practices assume this rule reaches hospitals rather than them. Medicare Part B participation alone brings a practice within scope. Who is covered, the two compliance dates, what WCAG 2.1 AA requires in practice, what counts as your website, and the order to address it in. Documents Patient forms published as PDFs, and why they are usually the largest gap Most practice sites link at least one patient document, and in our assessments the majority of those are scans. A scan of text contains no text. How to verify yours in seconds, why documents fall inside the standard, and the three remediation routes in order of cost. Manual testing Six accessibility checks you can run on your own site with a keyboard Automated testing measures roughly a third of accessibility barriers. These six procedures cover the judgement-dependent remainder, which is disproportionately what patients raise. About fifteen minutes, no software required.In preparation: what to put to your web agency in writing, why booking and payment widgets are typically the weakest component of a practice site, and where accessibility and search visibility overlap.