JSPHI is committed to a site everyone can use.
What we have built, what we are still building, and how to tell us when something is in your way. Accessibility is part of the work, not a separate task.
We aim for WCAG 2.1 Level AA across the site.
Public health work cannot ask people to navigate a system and then fail them at the entry point. The website is meant to be usable by people with vision, hearing, mobility, and cognitive differences, on assistive technology, on slow connections, and on a range of devices. We target conformance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 at Level AA, with continuous review as new pages and interactive components are added. This is ongoing work, not a finished destination.
Features built into the current site.
The site is built with semantic HTML, including landmark regions for main content, navigation, and footer, and heading hierarchy that screen readers can follow. Every interactive element can be reached and operated with a keyboard alone. Focus is visible on every link, button, and form field. Color contrast for body text meets or exceeds the 4.5 to 1 ratio called for at WCAG AA. Dialogs and detail panels trap focus while open and close in response to the Escape key. Form fields are labeled explicitly. Icon-only buttons carry screen reader text. Decorative images carry empty alt attributes; meaningful images carry descriptive alt text. The site honors the reduced-motion preference set in your operating system.
Honest about what is not finished yet.
Some of the interactive visualizations on the Explore Data and Communities of Care pages are still being refined for full screen reader narration. We are building plain-language text equivalents for these visualizations so the information is accessible regardless of how a visitor navigates. Live region announcements for asynchronous form responses, such as the message you see after submitting a contact request, are in active improvement. Each new page launched on the site goes through an accessibility review before it is published. We expect to find and fix issues as we go.
Please tell us, and we will fix it.
If any part of this site does not work for you, or if you encountered a barrier we did not anticipate, please let us know. Reports go directly to the JSPHI team and are taken seriously. Use the contact form on this site or reach us by email through the address listed there. We respond to accessibility reports within five business days and aim to resolve confirmed issues as quickly as the change requires.
The frameworks shaping this work.
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 published by the World Wide Web Consortium. Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 as amended in the United States. Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act. We treat these as floors, not ceilings.
Last reviewed: May 2026