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Accessibility principles

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Accessibility principles

Phoenix Health Compass is used by patients, family caregivers, and clinicians across a wide range of abilities, ages, and devices. We build to WCAG 2.1 Level AA as a baseline and treat accessibility as a product requirement, not an afterthought.

Design choices we made deliberately

  • **High-contrast color palette** with a 4.5:1 minimum contrast ratio for body text.
  • **Text scales fluidly** up to 200% without breaking layout or hiding content.
  • **All interactive elements are keyboard reachable** with visible focus rings.
  • **Every form field has a real label** — never placeholder text as the only label.
  • **Semantic HTML** everywhere — landmarks, headings in order, buttons for actions, links for navigation.
  • **ARIA is used sparingly** and only where native HTML falls short.

For screen reader users

  • Every page has a unique, descriptive title and a single H1.
  • Icons that carry meaning have accessible names.
  • Dynamic content (search results, notifications, modal dialogs) is announced via live regions.
  • Skip-to-content links appear on every page.

Media

  • Images have alt text or are marked decorative.
  • Videos include captions and, where the content is essential, transcripts.

Reporting an accessibility issue

If any part of the site is difficult to use with your assistive technology, please tell us: accessibility@phoenixhealthcompass.com. We treat accessibility bugs as high priority.