Accessibility — IVF Check

This site is read by people who are frightened, on cheap phones, on slow connections, sometimes in a language that is not their first. It has to work for them. Here is what we have done and where we fall short.

1. The standard we aim at

WCAG 2.2 Level AA. That is the benchmark the Indian government's own accessibility guidance points to, and the one we test against.

2. What we have done

Contrast. Every text and background pairing on the site is measured, and the lowest ratio anywhere is 5.3:1 — above the 4.5:1 required for body text and well above the 3:1 required for large text and interface edges.
Colour is never the only signal. Level 1 and Level 2 differ by colour, by wording ("IUI only" against "IVF"), and by shape. A reader who cannot distinguish marigold from indigo loses nothing.
Tap targets. Interactive elements are at least 44 pixels tall in the main navigation and 46–48 pixels for buttons, comfortably above the 24-pixel minimum.
Keyboard. Every link, control and search result is reachable and operable by keyboard, with a visible focus ring in indigo on cream.
Screen readers. Semantic landmarks, one h1 per page, ordered headings, a skip-to-content link, labelled form controls, and decorative icons marked aria-hidden.
No motion to disable. There are no carousels, no parallax and no autoplay. If you have "reduce motion" set on your device, transitions are turned off.
Zoom and reflow. The layout reflows to a 320-pixel-wide screen with no horizontal scrolling, and text can be enlarged to 200% without loss of content.
Print. Clinic pages print cleanly on one or two sheets, with the questions list intact and navigation removed — useful to carry into a clinic.
Weight. Pages are around 4–5 KB compressed with no images, so they load on a weak connection and cost little data.

3. Where we fall short

English only. The site is not yet available in Hindi or any other Indian language. This is the single biggest accessibility gap, given who the site is for. It is next on the list.
Scanned certificates. The PDFs we link to are images. We provide the decoded facts as text on the page so the scan is never the only route to the information, but the scans themselves are not accessible documents.
Long state pages. A state with several hundred clinics produces a long page. It is navigable by heading, but we know it is heavy going on a screen reader.

4. Reporting a barrier

If something on this site is unusable for you, tell us what you were trying to do and what happened, at access@ivfcheck.org. We will reply, fix what we can, and — where we cannot fix it quickly — tell you the information you needed directly.

We do not claim formal certification. The statements above describe how the site is built and tested, not an audit by a third party.