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charitable ratings.
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Board and Committee members

WHO WE ARE CONTINUED

* Compassion & Choices Magazine
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* Testimonials

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Dementia End-of-Life Care We're working to transform how people die with
dementia to ensure people are aware, empowered and supported in getting
the care they want – or do not want – should dementia take hold.
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Healthcare Equity at the End of Life Compassion & Choices is working in
partnership with our Leadership Councils and partner organizations to
address inequities in end-of-life care and planning.
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Medical Aid in Dying Compassion & Choices is leading efforts to authorize,
implement and defend medical aid in dying so all terminally ill people who
are eligible will have access to the full range of end-of-life care
options.
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Voluntarily Stop Eating and Drinking Compassion & Choices is working to
raise awareness about the option of voluntarily stopping eating and
drinking.

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* Advance Care Planning
* Hospice Care
* Palliative Care
* Palliative Sedation
* Refusals to Provide Care
* Telehealth
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* map
In Your State Learn where medical aid in dying is authorized, states with
pending legislation and where Compassion & Choices has on-the-ground
efforts that you can join.
* build
Tools to Finish Strong Access all of our end-of-life planning tools to
Finish Strong

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* En Español
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* Resources
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* accessibility
Access Campaigns When medical aid-in-dying laws are authorized, we work to
implement the laws to ensure meaningful access.
* groups
Community Engagement Learn what we're doing to address healthcare equity
in end-of-life care.
* chat
Political Advocacy & Outreach We work across the country to authorize
medical aid-in-dying laws and advance end-of-life autonomy. Learn what's
happening in your state.

HOW WE DO IT CONTINUED

* Federal Advocacy & Policy
* Legal Advocacy
* Medical Outreach

* How You Can Help keyboard_arrow_down
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We firmly believe that the internet should be available and accessible to anyone
and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the broadest
possible audience, regardless of ability.

To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web
Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA
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with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us
ensure that the website is accessible to blind people, people with motor
impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.

This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as
accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that
allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user
interface) and design it to their personal needs.

Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the
background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application
remediates the website’s HTML, adapts its functionality and behavior for
screen-readers used by blind users, and for keyboard functions used by
individuals with motor impairments.

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1. Screen-reader optimization: we run a process that learns the website’s
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meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide
accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons,
search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs;
element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others.

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description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not
described. It will also extract texts embedded within the image using an OCR
(optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader
adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard
combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn
the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.

These adjustments are compatible with popular screen readers such as JAWS,
NVDA, VoiceOver, and TalkBack.

2. Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the
website’s HTML and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the
website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the
website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow
keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key,
navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill
them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.

Additionally, keyboard users will find content-skip menus available at any
time by clicking Alt+2, or as the first element of the site while navigating
with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by
moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, not allowing
the focus to drift outside.

Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F”
(forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.

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use the website by eliminating the risk of seizures resulting from flashing
or blinking animations and risky color combinations.
* Vision Impaired Profile: this profile adjusts the website so that it is
accessible to the majority of visual impairments such as Degrading Eyesight,
Tunnel Vision, Cataract, Glaucoma, and others.
* Cognitive Disability Profile: this profile provides various assistive
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CVA, and others, to focus on the essential elements more easily.
* ADHD Friendly Profile: this profile significantly reduces distractions and
noise to help people with ADHD, and Neurodevelopmental disorders browse,
read, and focus on the essential elements more easily.
* Blind Users Profile (Screen-readers): this profile adjusts the website to be
compatible with screen-readers such as JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver, and TalkBack. A
screen-reader is installed on the blind user’s computer, and this site is
compatible with it.
* Keyboard Navigation Profile (Motor-Impaired): this profile enables
motor-impaired persons to operate the website using the keyboard Tab,
Shift+Tab, and the Enter keys. Users can also use shortcuts such as “M”
(menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to
jump to specific elements.

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family (type), adjust the spacing, alignment, line height, and more.
2. Color adjustments – users can select various color contrast profiles such as
light, dark, inverted, and monochrome. Additionally, users can swap color
schemes of titles, texts, and backgrounds with over seven different coloring
options.
3. Animations – epileptic users can stop all running animations with the click
of a button. Animations controlled by the interface include videos, GIFs,
and CSS flashing transitions.
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as links and titles. They can also choose to highlight focused or hovered
elements only.
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issues due to automatic audio playing. This option lets users mute the
entire website instantly.
6. Cognitive disorders – we utilize a search engine linked to Wikipedia and
Wiktionary, allowing people with cognitive disorders to decipher meanings of
phrases, initials, slang, and others.
7. Additional functions – we allow users to change cursor color and size, use a
printing mode, enable a virtual keyboard, and many other functions.

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