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What is Clinical Pharmacology powered by ClinicalKey's accessibility support?
Last updated on July 15, 2025
Elsevier is committed to digital accessibility for all, regardless of ability or disability. We work continually to improve the accessibility and usability of all our products. Accessibility is an ideal and responsibility that we share with our community of customers and users. We strive to make Clinical Pharmacology powered by ClinicalKey and its contents as accessible as possible.
Learn more on our Elsevier Accessibility Policy.
Elsevier endeavors to meet all guidelines and standards established by the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 at level AA conformance, and Section 508 of the Federal Rehabilitation Act. These guidelines define how to make digital content more accessible to people with disabilities, and conformance to them improves usability for all users.
Clinical Pharmacology powered by ClinicalKey makes continual improvements with the aim of achieving full conformance with WCAG 2.1 AA.
For a detailed review of how Clinical Pharmacology powered by ClinicalKey conforms with WCAG 2.1 success criteria, please refer to our Voluntary Product Assessment Template (VPAT) document. This document was produced by the members of the Elsevier’s Digital Accessibility Team in 2023. The product has remediated some of the elements raised since, and will thus receive an updated VPAT. The team continues actively working on a remediation plan to further improve our product for everyone.
Elsevier sees accessibility as a priority and is striving to adhere to WCAG 2.1 AA standards via our product roadmaps. We promote awareness of accessibility principles among our employees, providing opportunities and resources for them to further develop digital accessibility expertise. We maintain a dedicated internal accessibility team to evaluate, support, and improve accessibility on our platforms.
Clinical Pharmacology powered by ClinicalKey offers features that benefit everyone, including full-text search, browse and filter by content type. The user interface design is simple, flexible and consistent.
- The user interface and all content are available in HTML, which is compatible with screen readers such as JAWS, NVDA and Apple's VoiceOver.
- Pages are well structured with headings, landmarks, and lists, which allow users of assistive technology to easily jump around pages and understand content. Main navigation links are consistent across pages.
- Most controls and features are operable using keyboard only.
- Navigation in the header includes a visible 'Skip to…' set of links to skip repetitive elements and jump to corresponding sections.
- Pages strive to always provide logical tab order.
- Pages are responsive, which provides an information display optimal for the user's computer or mobile device screen size in a browser as well as mobile app.
- Content pages are usable when style sheets are disabled.
- All pages and content may be enlarged using standard browser controls.
- Text and form elements has sufficient contrast adhere to WCAG requirements for color contrast, and our team dedicated significant effort to making text clearly legible across the site.
- Links are visually distinguished from text, and most interactive elements also have obvious visual hover and focus states.
Our team is dedicated to improving accessibility, and we're continually working to address the following known issues:
- We are further improving authorization and registration pages.
- We are updating content interactions to update navigation and image interactions
- Adding accessibility information to book content and online EPUB access.
If you have accessibility questions regarding Clinical Pharmacology powered by ClinicalKey, or to report accessibility issues, please contact us via email [email protected] or our Support Hub’s contact form.
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