Accessibility
Last updated: · Target: WCAG 2.2 Level AA
We want every person — including people using screen readers, screen magnifiers, voice control, switch devices, or keyboard-only navigation — to be able to use this site. To us, accessible means you can get the same information, complete the same tasks, and use the same tools as any other reader, with substantially equivalent ease.
This page explains the standard we work toward, where we honestly stand today, how our interactive tools are handled, and — most importantly — how to reach us if something on this site gets in your way.
On this page
Where we stand today
- Standard
- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2, Level AA — our target
- Status
- Partially conformant. Most of this website is accessible, and some parts do not yet fully conform. The known exceptions are listed under Known limitations.
- Assessed by
- Self-evaluation (see How we assess this site)
- Last reviewed
We say “partially conformant” because it is the honest description. We do not claim full conformance, and we do not use conformance badges, seals, or automated “accessibility overlay” widgets. We would rather tell you plainly what works, what does not yet, and what we are doing about it.
Get help or report a barrier
If anything on this site is hard or impossible for you to use, we want to know. This is the fastest way to reach the people who can fix it:
Email contentvault@thetreatmentcommunity.com- Tell us what happened — the page you were on (a link or the page title is perfect) and what got in your way.
- Tell us your setup if you can — the browser and any assistive technology you were using (for example, a screen reader or keyboard-only navigation). This helps us reproduce the barrier.
- We read every report. Barriers that block access to content or tools are prioritized for fixing, and where a fix takes time we will try to offer the information another way.
If you need the information on any page in a different format, the same address is the right place to ask.
Measures we take
Accessibility is part of how pages on this site are designed and built, not an add-on. The measures below describe our working standards:
- Semantic structure. Pages use HTML landmarks (header, navigation, main content, footer), a single logical heading order, and “skip to content” links, so screen-reader and keyboard users can move around without wading through repeated navigation.
- Contrast-checked colors. Our brand palette is audited against WCAG contrast requirements, and the color pairings used for text on this site are chosen from the combinations that pass. We do not use color as the only way to convey meaning.
- Keyboard operability. Interactive elements are designed to be reachable and usable by keyboard, with visible focus indicators.
- Text alternatives. Informative images and figures are built to carry text alternatives, and our informational graphics include full text equivalents in the page itself.
- Readable by design. Large default text, generous line spacing, comfortable line lengths, plain language, and pages that reflow at 200% zoom and on small screens without horizontal scrolling.
- Crisis resources as real links. Phone lines like 988 and SAMHSA’s helpline are presented as tap-to-call telephone links, not images or decorations.
- Accessibility built into new work. New pages and every new interactive tool go through accessibility checks as part of the build (see the next section for exactly what that means for tools).
Interactive tools & forms
Alongside our articles, we are building a set of interactive educational tools — calculators, self-assessments, and an insurance-verification form. Because tools are forms, they are exactly where accessibility problems tend to concentrate on health websites: unlabeled inputs, controls a keyboard cannot reach, results a screen reader never announces. We treat tool accessibility as a launch requirement, not a follow-up.
Where the tools stand: as of August 2026, our tool pages are placeholders — the tools themselves have not launched yet. They are being built and released in waves.
Our commitment for every tool we launch:
- Every input has a proper, programmatically associated label.
- The whole tool can be operated by keyboard alone, with visible focus.
- Results are announced to assistive technology, not just displayed visually.
- Where a tool asks for your consent to collect information, the consent step itself is operable by keyboard and screen reader — consent you cannot operate is not meaningful consent.
- Each tool is verified against these requirements at its launch, before we describe it as available.
We will not claim conformance for a tool that has not shipped or has not been verified. As tools launch, this page will be updated to reflect what is live.
Known limitations
Despite our efforts, some parts of this site do not yet fully conform to WCAG 2.2 Level AA. Listing them here is deliberate: it keeps us honest and tells you what to expect. If any of these blocks you, please tell us and we will try to provide the information another way.
Interactive tools are launching in waves
What it means: some tool pages exist before their tools do, and not every planned tool is live or verified yet.
What we are doing: each tool is verified for accessibility at its launch, per the commitment above. Until a tool is live, its page will not offer a partially working experience.
Compatibility
This site is built with standard, well-supported web technologies and is designed to work in current versions of major browsers, at high zoom levels, and on mobile devices. We have not yet completed formal testing with specific assistive-technology and browser combinations, so we do not publish a supported-technology list we could not stand behind. When that testing is done, we will list what we tested here.
Technical specifications
Accessibility of this site relies on the following technologies, used according to their specifications: HTML, CSS, and WAI-ARIA where native HTML is not sufficient. Our interactive tools additionally use JavaScript. These technologies are relied upon for conformance with the accessibility standard we target.
How we assess this site
We assess accessibility by self-evaluation. Our August 2026 review combined automated checks with a manual review of key page templates, including heading structure, landmarks, skip links, keyboard focus behavior, and color-contrast verification of the site’s palette. We have not yet commissioned an external audit; if we do, we will say so here and describe what it covered.
About this statement
This statement was prepared on , based on the self-evaluation described above. We review it at least once a year, and additionally whenever a new tool wave launches, so that what this page says stays true to what the site actually does.