Healthcare Website Accessibility Consulting
If accessibility matters anywhere, it matters most on a healthcare website. Many people in the U.S. experience challenges to accessing quality medical care, and people with disabilities who cannot interact with websites in a typical fashion often have an even harder time accessing the information they need to find a doctor, view their medical records, fill a prescription, or determine their insurance coverage.
Whether you work for a hospital, doctor’s office, an insurance company, surgery center, or any other company that provides healthcare to patients, you’re legally obligated to make your website, mobile applications, and other software accessible to people with disabilities.
As a healthcare provider or business, the website accessibility laws that may apply to you include Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Sections 504 and 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and Section 1557 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). This applies to all healthcare organizations that receive funding from the Department of Health and Human Services or other federal agencies, as well as insurance companies that offer Medicare, Medicaid, or the ACA Marketplace insurance plans.
Equalize Digital is here to help you protect your practice or company from ADA-related lawsuits or loss of federal funding by ensuring that your website and healthcare applications are accessible to people of all abilities.
Quick Benefits
- Ensure that patients can access and navigate your website and healthcare apps.
- Maintain compliance with WCAG 2.1, which will help you meet requirements under ADA, Section 508.
- Reach new and underserved market segments.
- Understand how people with disabilities use the internet.
WordPress Accessibility Solutions
Automated Testing
Our native WordPress accessibility scanner automatically checks your content against WCAG and scans unlimited pages in bulk without any costly per-page or API fees.
Audits & Remediation
We offer comprehensive accessibility audits and user testing. Get personalized remediation guidance and assistance fixing errors in your plugins or WordPress theme.
Bespoke Websites
We build accessible websites and web applications in the WordPress environment for large enterprise, government, higher education, and nonprofit organizations.
Web Accessibility Services for Healthcare Providers
Whether your hospital, surgery center, or clinic needs urgent accessibility help or are planning a new website or application and want to ensure it is accessible to people of all abilities, our unique combination of native automated testing software and expert accessibility consultants make us a leader in WordPress accessibility.
Why Healthcare Website Accessibility Matters
Having an accessible website and supporting digital equality is not just good karma, it’s good for business, too. More than 1 billion people in the world have a disability. So do 1-in-4 U.S. adults. Having an accessible website allows you to reach all your potential customers online, including blind and visually impaired users, deaf and hard of hearing users, and users with cognitive disabilities or physical impairments that challenge their ability to use a traditional keyboard and or mouse. Accessibility features help people who were born with disabilities and also people, like military veterans or the elderly, who become disabled or develop impairments through the course of their life.
Reduce risk of lawsuit
Ensure you’re compliant with federal and state laws for website accessibility
Improve search engine ranking
Many accessibility fixes will also improve your website’s search engine performance.
Increase appointments & patients
Allow more people access to your website, increasing opportunities for conversions.
Practice social responsibility
Take meaningful action and do your part to make the internet better.
Ready to get started?
Whether you’re concerned about accessibility compliance or you want to completely overhaul your company’s online presence, our team is ready to help you ensure your website is usable by people of all abilities.
To get started or learn more about how we work, call us at (512) 942-5858 or visit our contact page to request more information from our sales team.
