Accessibility

Our approach

People reach a spine surgeon’s website in pain, often on a phone, and sometimes with the numbness, weakness or loss of fine motor control that brought them here in the first place. Accessibility is not a compliance exercise in that context — it is whether the site works for the people it is for.

What that means in practice

• Body copy exceeds the 4.5:1 minimum. The ink used for headings and primary text measures 13.3:1 against the page background, article body copy measures 10.6:1, and the lightest colour used for any small text measures 4.6:1.
• The brand’s blue measures 5.9:1 against the page background, so it carries small text, and text reversed out of a blue band measures the same. Uppercase labels use a darkened step at 7.8:1, because 12px letterspaced type wants the extra weight.
• Every interactive element is reachable by keyboard and shows a visible focus ring.
• The navigation is a flat row of links on a wide screen and a single disclosure button with a panel on a narrow one, with its expanded state announced and dismissable with Escape.
• The treatments carousel is an ordinary scroll container. All seventeen cards are in the page and reachable by keyboard; the arrow buttons are a convenience over it and are hidden from assistive technology rather than duplicating it.
• Accordions and selectable filters carry their state in aria-expanded and aria-selected, and each answer panel is associated with the button that opens it.
• Headings follow a single logical order on every page, and each page has exactly one level-one heading.
• Text resizes without loss of content or function.
• All scroll animations are suppressed when the operating system asks for reduced motion, and nothing on the site depends on an animation to become readable.
• Forms report errors in text next to the control, never by colour alone, and both forms tell you plainly when a submission failed rather than confirming it.

Where we know we fall short

The maps on the location pages are embedded from Google and we do not control their accessibility. Every office’s full address is published as text beside its map, and the directions link works without the map, so no information is only available inside the embed.

Telling us about a problem

If any part of this site is difficult to use, call the office on (631) 600-9400 and tell us. We will fix it and, in the meantime, give you the information another way.