Accessibility statement

Sang Y Kim DMD, MD, P.C. is committed to making our website usable and welcoming for as many people as possible. We work to improve access to information about our practice, services, and how to reach us in McLean and Vienna, Virginia.

Standards we aim for

We aim to conform to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Opens in a new tab 2.1 at Level AA, where practical within our site and third-party tools. Meeting these guidelines helps make web content more accessible to people with a wide range of abilities and assistive technologies.

This statement describes our efforts in good faith. It is not a legal guarantee of compliance with any specific law or standard.

What we have implemented

Among other practices, we have focused on:

  • Logical heading structure and page regions to support navigation with screen readers and keyboards
  • A skip link to move quickly to the main content
  • Visible focus styles on interactive elements where we have customized them
  • Color contrast improvements for the header phone strip, the main footer band, the contact form (labels, fields, and placeholders), and inline links in body copy, checked against WCAG-oriented automated tools
  • Site footer styling limited to our main site footer, so a footer inside ordinary page content would not accidentally look like the site-wide footer
  • On the home page carousel, a dark gradient behind slide text so captions stay easier to read on variable photos
  • On Contact us: visible labels; validation and error messaging tied to fields; phone-friendly input types where we collect numbers; placeholder color chosen to stay readable on white; and short help text with phone and email if security verification is hard to complete
  • Where Google reCAPTCHA appears, we add accessible names on our pages (such as iframe titles and field labels) when supported; the challenge UI inside Google’s widget is still under Google’s control
  • Meaningful alternative text for informative images, and decorative images marked accordingly (for example, the logo beside readable text in the header)
  • Indication when links open in a new browser tab, where we have added that guidance (including screen-reader-only text on selected links)
  • Published phone numbers in body copy implemented as telephone links where users are expected to call from the page
  • Document language set to English (United States) for the site
  • The path /how-we-can-help redirects to Patient information so visitors do not land on a fragment-only include file by mistake

For our own maintenance, we keep a technical summary of these patterns in WEB-ACCESSIBILITY-COMPLIANCE.md in the website project files (not required reading for patients; it is an engineering checklist and change log).

Third-party content and known limitations

Some parts of our experience depend on services we do not fully control. They may not meet the same accessibility goals as our own pages. Examples can include:

  • Google reCAPTCHA on the Contact us page; the challenge experience is controlled by Google and may not match every accessibility preference even when our page supplies extra naming around the widget
  • Google Maps links and map imagery
  • External patient registration or form providers linked from our site
  • PDF documents, such as referral forms, which may require a PDF reader and may vary in accessibility

If you have difficulty using any of these, please contact us using the options below and we will try to provide the information in another way.

Feedback and assistance

We welcome your feedback on the accessibility of this website. If you encounter a barrier, believe we can improve something, or need information in a different format, please reach out:

When you write or call, describe the page or feature you were using and what would help you use it more easily. We will consider your request and try to respond within a reasonable time.

Testing

We run automated accessibility checks (for example, Deque axe-core against our public URLs with WCAG 2 Level A and AA rule tags) as part of releases. Automated tools catch only part of possible issues; they do not replace manual testing with a keyboard or screen reader.

Updates

We review and update our site and this statement from time to time as our content and technology change. This page was last reviewed in April 2026.

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