Chesney named CAO of Brown Cancer Center
UofL Health announces the promotion of Jason Chesney, M.D., Ph.D., to chief administrative officer of UofL Health – Brown Cancer Center and the UofL Health Oncology Service Line.
UofL Health announces the promotion of Jason Chesney, M.D., Ph.D., to chief administrative officer of UofL Health – Brown Cancer Center and the UofL Health Oncology Service Line.
February is Heart Month, a time dedicated to raising awareness about heart health, preventing cardiovascular disease and keeping your clock ticking for many years to come. We have tons of educational opportunities to learn about heart health cardiovascular disease as well as chances to get featured on our social media and share your story about what heart month means to you!
UofL Health announces the promotion of Debra Riley, DNP to vice president of Cardiovascular Services. Debra has been the executive director with UofL Physicians – Cardiothoracic Surgery for the past year, working to help align the cardiovascular and cardiothoracic practices into a fully integrated service line.
UofL Health announces the promotion of Elea Mihou Fox as the system’s first vice president of philanthropy. Elea brings more than a decade of successful fundraising experience, spending the last three years as the executive director of development for the UofL Health – Brown Cancer Center.
A number of health issues may have a negative impact on a woman’s well-being during pregnancy and childbirth. Three out of five maternal deaths in the U.S. are considered preventable, yet the U.S. has a higher rate compared to other high-income countries. The Center for Women & Infants (CWI) has been making strides to improve maternal morbidity and mortality at UofL Health – UofL Hospital.
How well you are isn’t defined by a number on a scale. Read more about what benefits and programs UofL Health has to offer our team members so you can be the healthiest you every day.
The past several weeks we surveyed sample groups of leaders and employees to learn how we can improve our Performance Management Process. We are moving to a second phase where we will test the effectiveness of the improvements we are proposing.
The “Pfizer Five” rolled up their sleeves to receive their second doses of the COVID-19 vaccination on Jan. 4. This group consists of Chief Medical Officer Dr. Jason Smith, LaShawn Scott, RN, Dr. Mohamed Saad, Beth Sum, RN and Dr. Valerie Briones-Pryor.
UofL Health – Specialty Pharmacy proudly announces it has achieved accreditation through the Accreditation Commission for Health Care (ACHC).
Recently, nurses at UofL Health – Jewish Hospital 7 Towers had a rock cleansing ceremony to honor the COVID-19 patients they’ve lost since the pandemic began.
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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 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.
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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 of 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 of 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), both for Windows and for MAC users.
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