Accessibility

Our goal

Kura Notes LLC wants KODEx to be usable by everyone who does this work, including people who use a screen reader, magnification, voice control or a keyboard alone. We aim to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 at level AA.

Where things stand

This is an honest account, not a claim of full conformance. Some pages, including these legal pages, have been checked with an automated accessibility checker (axe) in light and dark themes and at phone width, and by keyboard; problems found that way, such as text with too little contrast, have been fixed. Not every page has been checked that way, and there has been no full or independent audit.

What we have built in:

• Light and dark themes, following your device’s setting unless you choose one.
• Pages that reflow to a phone’s width, and text that can be enlarged by the browser.
• Headings, labels and page landmarks for assistive technology.
• Navigation and search that work from the keyboard, including the search palette (Ctrl+K or ⌘K).
• The animated demonstrations on the home and demo pages are marked as decorative and hidden from assistive technology, so their moving parts do not take keyboard focus.

Known limitations

• Publishers’ documents. The PDFs and files KODEx links to and opens are the publishers’ own — CMS, FDA and others. Many are scanned, untagged or laid out in ways a screen reader handles poorly, and we cannot change them without changing what they say. The facts KODExtakes from them are shown as ordinary text on its own pages.
• Wide data tables. Drug sheets, code sheets and fee tables have many columns. On a narrow screen or at high zoom they scroll sideways inside their own box, and a few columns stay fixed while the rest scroll. They can be hard to follow with a screen reader or magnifier. Each sheet can be exported as a spreadsheet (CSV), which many people find easier to read with their own tools.
• Package photographs, where a deployment shows them, are the manufacturers’ images from the National Library of Medicine and have no detailed description; the label text they show is available from the linked DailyMed page.

Tell us, and get it another way

If something here is hard or impossible to use with the way you work, write to support@kuranotes.app with the page address and what went wrong. We aim to reply within five business days. We will help you get the information you need — for example by sending it as plain text or in an accessible spreadsheet — and we will fix the problem where we can.