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Website accessibility for dental clinics: ADA and EAA risks

Dental clinics websites usually hinge on online booking, new-patient forms, insurance and payment pages. These are the accessibility problems that most often show up on them, and they are among the issues cited in ADA demand letters. Check your own site for free with a read-only scan.

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Common accessibility problems on these sites

  • Online booking widgets with unlabeled date, time and insurance fields
  • Before-and-after photo galleries without alt text
  • New-patient PDF forms that cannot be filled in with a screen reader
  • Phone-only appointment instructions with no accessible alternative

What we found on 47 dental clinics websites

Average automated score: 64/100. Share of sampled sites with each issue on at least one scanned page:

  • 68% skipped heading levels
  • 62% no "skip to main content" link
  • 57% links with no accessible name
  • 57% no accessibility statement link
  • 38% duplicate element ids
  • 38% contact or checkout fields without autocomplete
  • 28% accessibility overlay widget detected
  • 28% embedded frames without titles

Methodology: Read-only scan of the homepage and up to 2 linked pages of 47 public dental clinics websites in six U.S. metros (Austin, Chicago, Denver, Atlanta, Seattle, Phoenix), scanned 2026-10-26. Site list from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL). Our crawler honors robots.txt; individual sites are never named. Automated checks find only some issues, and these figures describe the sample, not every business or any legal conclusion. About our crawler.

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Run the free scan on your homepage and your booking, contact or checkout page. It lists the exact HTML to fix and generates an Accessibility Statement. Avoid overlay widgets; fix the underlying pages instead.

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Frequently asked questions

What should dental clinics check first?

Online booking widgets with unlabeled date, time and insurance fields.

How do I check my own site?

Run the free scan on your homepage and your booking, contact or checkout page. It lists the exact HTML to fix and generates an Accessibility Statement. Avoid overlay widgets; fix the underlying pages instead.

Is this legal advice?

No. These are technical guidelines and an automated, read-only check, not legal advice or a certification.

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