MedCourseFinder

Accessibility statement

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Draft prepared with AI assistance; the operator should have it reviewed by a qualified lawyer.

We want MedCourseFinder to be usable by as many people as possible, including people using keyboards, screen readers, zoom and right-to-left languages. This statement is honest about where we are: the target is WCAG 2.2 level AA, and the site has not yet been audited by an independent body.

Our target

We aim to conform to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2, level AA. Conformance is a goal, not a claim: we have not obtained an external audit or certification.

What is implemented

From the current code and tests:

  • A skip link to the main content and a logical heading structure on every page.
  • The page language and text direction are set for each locale (English, French, Spanish, and Arabic with right-to-left layout), and Arabic uses the Tajawal typeface.
  • A visible focus outline on interactive elements, and touch targets sized for comfortable use on the main controls.
  • Light, dark and system themes; colour tokens are checked by an automated contrast test against minimum ratios.
  • Labelled form fields, named buttons and links, and landmark regions, checked by automated tests for accessible names, labels and landmarks.
  • Reduced-motion preferences are respected in animations.
  • Breadcrumbs, a table of contents on long pages and print styles for the policy pages.
  • A keyboard-operable structure list and tree that gives access to the same anatomical structures as the 3D view, which is hidden from assistive technology.

Known limitations

We know of the following problems and are working on them:

  • The 3D canvas itself is not accessible to screen readers. The structure list is the keyboard-accessible equivalent, but rotating, zooming and visualisation controls such as sectioning or exploding a model are designed mainly for pointer and touch input and may be hard or impossible to use by keyboard alone.
  • ECG tracings, imaging images and other graphics may have only a short text description; the full finding is not always available as text.
  • PDF documents you load into the document tools are only as accessible as the PDF itself.
  • Some Arabic, French and Spanish medical terms were machine-assisted and may be awkward for screen-reader pronunciation.
  • We have not tested with every combination of browser and assistive technology, and have not carried out a formal audit.

Report a problem

If you cannot use part of the site, or find content that is hard to perceive or operate, please tell us what page, what device and assistive technology you used and what happened. We will try to provide the information in another way and to fix the problem.

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If you are not satisfied

If our answer does not satisfy you, you may contact the body responsible for digital accessibility or consumer protection in your country.