Accessibility Statement: Osmosis from Elsevier

Accessibility at Elsevier

Elsevier consistently and proactively endeavors to make our products fully accessible to all users, regardless of physical abilities. You can read more about our company-wide approach to accessibility in Elsevier’s Accessibility Policyopens in new tab/window. 

We are committed to ensuring that our products comply with accessibility regulations worldwide. To find out about the improvements we are making, please refer to our statements on the European Accessibility Actopens in new tab/window and Americans with Disabilities Act Title II updateopens in new tab/window.

Accessibility at Osmosis

Osmosis aspires to meet all accessibility guidelines established by the World Wide Web Consortium's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.2 A and AA and the U.S. Section 508 Standards of the Federal Rehabilitation Act, ADA Title II, as well as similar standards enacted by countries around the globe such as the European Accessibility Act. Customers may download the VPAT Accessibility Conformance Report to see compliance with specific guidelines. If you would like to see Osmosis' VPATs, please see Elsevier's Accessibility Conformance Reports page:

Elsevier Accessibility Conformance Reports - Osmosis Web – April 30, 2026opens in new tab/window

Elsevier Accessibility Conformance Reports - Osmosis Mobile– September 19, 2025opens in new tab/window

If you need accessibility support or would like to report accessibility issues, please contact our Customer Support team at

Select the options below to find out more information on each topic:

Web Accessibility and Usability Features

Osmosis offers features that benefit everyone, including full-text search, browse and filter by content type or specialty, and bookmark-friendly content. Osmosis features a simple, flexible, and consistent user interface design. We provide content in a number of different modalities, including videos, online quizzing, text-based AI learning, and notes in PDF format.

Video

Osmosis is a video-first platform, meaning most of our content is presented as educational videos with accompanying audio, closed captions (cc), and transcripts in English. Spanish language options are available for some products. To increase the size of our transcripts, learners may increase the zoom through their browser.

Learners can pause, play, jump forward/backwards, turn on/off captions, expand to full-screen, and increase/decrease the playback screen through mouse or keyboard controls (listed below). We also offer Picture- in-picture to enable learners to watch while following the content in the transcript below.

Audio

The audio for our videos is adjustable with controls to speed up or slow down the playback speed.

Notes

Along with videos, we also offer additional content as “Notes”. Paid subscribers can download and print these Notes for offline viewing. Learners may also zoom in and out directly in the Notes viewer as desired. Notes available on Osmosis.org are downloadable as pdfs. These notes are available as downloadable tagged PFDs and are primarily text-based. They also contain images and illustrations supported by alt-text descriptions.

Interface

The Osmosis website features a responsive design and supports various screen sizes. Additionally, we offer alternative ways of interacting with our app.

Screen readers

Content on Osmosis is largely programmatically determinable, supporting the use of screen readers and other assistive technologies. Many content sections feature meaningful semantic structure and appropriate labels for forms and controls.

Details on these issues and on the usability of assistive technology are made available in the VPAT.

Questions and assessments

Learners can complete questions and flashcards using keyboard controls alone, and may customize or toggle off the quiz shortcut keys listed below.

Images that appear in questions, answer options, and explanations are supported by alt-text descriptions. Where the image is itself the subject of the assessment descriptions are written to convey the clinically relevant detail without revealing the answer.

Keyboard controls

Learners can use the following keyword shortcuts to interact with the web video player when it’s in focus and may also customize or toggle on/off the shortcut keys for Quizzes.

For highlighting quiz text: after focusing the text, use shift and left or right arrows to select, and press H to highlight.

Video player keyboard controls

Quiz keyboard controls

Flashcard keyboard controls

Mobile apps

We also offer mobile applications, available in Google Play (Android) and the Videos, captions, transcripts, and assessments (questions and flashcards) are supported. Additionally, learners can save videos and quizzes for offline viewing if internet connectivity is a concern.

Elsevier Accessibility Conformance Reports - Osmosis Mobile– September 19, 2025opens in new tab/window

Osmosis AI

Osmosis AI makes use Sherpath AI’s UX interface to provide this service for learners. For details on accessibility, please refer to the Sherpath AI VPAT: Sherpath AI VPAT – April 2025.opens in new tab/window