Healthcare
Website accessibility for community health centers
FQHCs serve exactly the patients most likely to depend on assistive technology. An inaccessible appointment request or patient-portal link is a barrier to care, not just a compliance gap.
The rule and the deadline
HHS Section 504 web rule · WCAG 2.1 AA
- May 11, 2027
- 15 or more employees
- May 10, 2028
- Fewer than 15 employees
These dates are set by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Section 504 web accessibility rule. This is general information, not legal advice.
The pages that matter most
Accessibility isn't abstract — it's whether someone can complete the tasks they came to do. For community health centers (fqhcs), we pay particular attention to the high-consequence pages:
- Appointment request forms
- Patient portal links
- Sliding-scale and eligibility pages
- Intake PDFs
How we assess it
We assess a representative sample of your pages against WCAG 2.1 AA — automated testing plus structured human review — and send you a free, evidence-backed findings report. Automated testing detects roughly 57% of issues by volume; a reviewer checks the rest.
We don't use accessibility overlays, and we don't sell you a badge to make the problem look solved. You get a real report of what to fix. See the full methodology.
Uplift Accredited is a digital accessibility recognition program. It is not affiliated with CMS, ACHC, CHAP, or The Joint Commission and does not affect Medicare certification or clinical accreditation status.
The first step is a findings report
Apply and a reviewer will send a free findings report — the specific issues on your pages, and what it would take to fix them.