Power of U: Robert Edwards
A snowstorm wasn’t going to stop Robert Edwards, a surgical tech at UofL Health – UofL Hospital, from getting to work.
A snowstorm wasn’t going to stop Robert Edwards, a surgical tech at UofL Health – UofL Hospital, from getting to work.
Alma Kuhlemann, Ph.D., CHI, has been with UofL Health for almost six years. As the translation coordinator and as a Spanish translator/interpreter for UofL Health – Language Services, Alma works with team members and providers throughout the organization to make document translation a reality for those wanting to give their patients clearly written instructions in…
Chris E. Nelson, MSSW, has been with UofL Health for five years, currently serving as the supervisor of the Assessment and Referral Center at UofL Health – Peace Hospital. Chris started his journey as a PRN assessment clinician in the Assessment and Referral Center. Although his position was part-time, he worked full-time hours in the…
Amy Mattingly, M.Ed., LPATA, is a community health worker and art therapist at UofL Health – UofL Hospital – Trauma Institute. Amy started with UofL Health as an art therapy intern in August 2021. She completed her master’s level internship with the Trauma Institute in April 2022 and was hired as an art therapist at…
Meet Chris Chandler, the social media manager with the UofL Health – Marketing & Communications team. As social media manager, Chris creates and manages content for the organization across all social platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok and YouTube.
Wendy Myers, MBA, MT(ASCP), has been with UofL Health since May 2022. She is the laboratory manager at UofL Health – Mary & Elizabeth Hospital and has worked in health care for 20 years. In her role, Wendy leads the hospital’s laboratory team and works with all hospital departments to ensure quality patient care through…
Stephanie Rogers has worked as a physician recruiter at UofL Health – UofL Physicians for a little over three years. Stephanie assists her team with physician and provider recruitment for UofL Physicians. Her service areas of recruitment are cardiology, family medicine, urology and other various areas in surgery. Stephanie finds joy in helping others figure…
Pamela Porter has been with UofL Health for close to 20 years. She began her journey with UofL Health in June 2004 at UofL Health – Medical Center East as an anesthesia technician.
Meredith Crawford, MSSW, CSW, is the primary transplant social worker for the Liver Transplant Program with UofL Health – Trager Transplant Center. Meredith has been with UofL Health for 17 years.
Sunita Kasliwal, M.D., MBA, is the chief medical information officer (CMIO) for UofL Health. Through her role, Dr. Kasliwal acts as a liaison between the UofL Health – Information Technology team and frontline clinical team members.
UofL Health Now
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 widest possible audience, regardless of circumstance and 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 level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: 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 the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
If you’ve found a malfunction or have ideas for improvement, we’ll be happy to hear from you. You can reach out to the website’s operators by using the following email
Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with 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. Additionally, the background process scans all the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are 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 all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
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 quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements 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, and not allow the focus drift outside it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers).
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs. There may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to