Last updated 27 August 2026
Accessibility
This site exists for people having one of the worst weeks of their life, often reading it one-handed in a hospital corridor. It should work with a screen reader, a keyboard, and no mouse at all.
What we aim for
We target WCAG 2.1 Level AA, the standard the U.S. Department of Justice points to under the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the level required of state and local government entities — including public hospitals — under the DOJ's 2024 web accessibility rule.
What is in place
- Every function reachable by keyboard, with a visible focus outline and a skip link to the main content.
- Search, filters, dialogs and the hospital list are announced to screen readers, and dialogs return focus when closed.
- The map is decorative: every state on it is also a plain link in the footer and on the states page, and each state has its own text page listing every hospital.
- Every colour pair the site renders is measured against AA by
tools/check-contrast.mjsin our own repository, in both light and dark themes, including form-control borders under the 3:1 non-text rule. Nothing depends on colour alone. - Motion respects
prefers-reduced-motion; nothing flashes or auto-plays. - Pages resize and reflow to 200% and to a 320px viewport without horizontal scrolling.
Known gaps
- The interactive map conveys density visually. The same information is in the state list, in the footer links and on each state's own page, but the map itself is not a substitute for them.
- Our testing is automated plus manual keyboard and screen-reader passes. An independent audit with disabled testers has not been done yet, and we will say so here until it has.
Tell us
If anything here blocked you, write to accessibility@byoutoyou.com with the page and what happened. We treat access problems as bugs and fix them in the same queue.