Accessibility Statement

Our Commitment

VoiceDoctor.net is an educational resource about voice, laryngology, and throat health. Our mission is to make this information available to everyone — patients, students, clinicians, and educators — regardless of how they access the web.

We are committed to maintaining an accessible website and we regularly evaluate the site against current accessibility standards. If you encounter a barrier that prevents you from accessing content on this site, please let us know immediately and we will address it.

Accessibility Standards

VoiceDoctor.net targets conformance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 at Level AA. These guidelines explain how to make web content more accessible to people with disabilities including visual, auditory, physical, speech, cognitive, language, learning, and neurological disabilities.

Our target is full Level AA conformance. Where full conformance has not yet been achieved, we document known issues below and are actively working to resolve them.

Accessibility Features

The following accessibility features are implemented across VoiceDoctor.net:

Semantic HTML: Pages use proper heading hierarchy (H1 → H2 → H3), landmark regions (header, main, nav, footer), and semantic elements to support screen reader navigation.

Keyboard navigation: All interactive elements — links, buttons, and form fields — are reachable and operable by keyboard alone. Focus indicators are visible.

ARIA labels: Navigation regions, icon-only links, and decorative images include appropriate ARIA labels or are marked as presentational so they are skipped by assistive technology.

Skip navigation: A skip-to-main-content link is available at the top of each page for keyboard users.

Responsive layout: All pages reflow to a single-column layout at mobile viewport widths without loss of content or functionality.

Text sizing: No text is set in absolute pixel sizes that prevent browser-level text resizing. Content remains readable when zoomed to 200%.

Color contrast: Body text and interactive elements meet or exceed the WCAG AA contrast ratio of 4.5:1 against their backgrounds.

Audio, Video & Images

Voice recordings: Audio recordings of voice conditions and treatment outcomes are provided with written descriptions identifying the condition demonstrated. We are working to add transcripts to all audio content.

Clinical video: Laryngoscopy and stroboscopy videos include descriptive captions and written clinical summaries. Autoplay is disabled on all media.

Clinical images: Laryngoscopy photographs and clinical diagrams include descriptive alt text explaining the clinical finding depicted.

Decorative images: Purely decorative images are assigned empty alt attributes (alt="") so screen readers skip them.

Known Issues

We are aware of the following accessibility limitations and are actively working to address them:

• Some older clinical video content does not yet have synchronized captions. Captions are being added on a rolling basis.
• A small number of downloadable handout PDFs were created before our current accessibility standards were in place and may not be fully screen-reader compatible. Updated versions will replace them.
• Complex laryngoscopy image galleries may benefit from more detailed long descriptions for users who rely on text alternatives. We are developing extended image descriptions for the most clinically significant images.

If you encounter an accessibility barrier not listed above, please report it using the contact information below.

Feedback & Contact

We welcome feedback on the accessibility of VoiceDoctor.net. If you experience difficulty accessing any content or functionality on this site, please tell us:

What page you were on, what you were trying to do, and what assistive technology you were using (if applicable). We will respond as quickly as possible and work to find an accessible solution.

We aim to respond to accessibility feedback within five business days. If you need information in an alternative format — for example, a plain-text version of a handout — please make that request in your message.