Accessibility
Astrelis wants every hospital board member, administrator, and community member to be able to read these pages. The target for astrelis.co is the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2, Level AA, published by the W3C. The site has not been certified as conforming; this page says what has been checked and how.
What that means in practice
Pages are built so they can be read with a screen reader and operated with a keyboard alone. Text and controls are meant to meet the AA contrast ratio against the navy background. Headings follow document order, every form control carries a label, every free-text field carries a visible note that is also announced, every chart carries an accessible name, and the same information a chart shows is printed in text beside it. Opening a form moves focus into it, and closing it returns focus to the control that opened it. Nothing on the site moves, flashes, or plays on its own.
How the site is tested
Before a release, one rendered page of each of the site's 30 templates (the home page, each provider profile type, the state rollups, the studies, the products page, and each trust page) is run through four scripted checks: an axe-core scan for the WCAG A and AA rules; a scripted keyboard path through the search (focus, type, arrow, Escape, Enter); a contrast measurement of every text label inside the charts against its background; and a layout check at a 375-pixel viewport for horizontal scrolling. Every failure those checks report is fixed at the template so the fix reaches every page built from it. These are automated checks and they cover part of the standard. No manual review with a screen reader or other assistive technology has been recorded yet; when one is, this page will say what was tested and what was found. Last scripted review: October 19, 2026.
Known limits
The three studies offered as PDF downloads (the national hospice study, the national home health study, and the skilled nursing study brief) are print layouts and have not been remediated as tagged PDFs. The same studies are published in full as web pages, and the web page is the accessible version: each PDF link says so beside it, and nothing in a PDF is absent from its page. Dot-distribution charts on profile pages describe their median and the facility's position in text, not every individual dot. If you find anything else that does not meet the standard, please tell us.
Report an access problem
Email mattborchardt@astrelis.co with the page address and what happened. You will hear back from Matt within one business day, and if a page cannot be fixed quickly we will send you the information on it in a format that works for you.