Accessibility
Most people will experience a degree of impairment or disability over the course of their lives. This can include a permanent disability, a temporary health condition, or challenges due to a particular situation.
People experience many different auditory, cognitive, physical, speech, and visual abilities. As part of our mission to provide an accessible and affordable healthcare service for every person on earth, we need to make products that everyone can use.
We need to have accessibility in our DNA.
Accessibility in our DNA
How do we make sure that accessibility is at our core of what we create?
- By making it central to our design language
- By helping you meet accessibility criteria
- By offering you support and guidance
Making it central
The Elements section is where you’ll find best practice for common design foundations. Things like animations, colours, buttons and links. By following the guidance here, you can build more accessible experiences.
Meeting criteria
There are independent standards to assess whether our products are accessible or not. In Guidelines, we've explained the 50 success criteria in the official Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 that we need to achieve. We’ve tried to keep the explanations clear and give real-life examples of how to apply these.
Support
Making our design accessible is something we’re committed to long-term. We need your help and contribution to keep it at our core.
If you have any questions, comments or proposals then you can contact the accessibility team:
- On the #accessibility Slack channel
- By email at [email protected]