Effective date: July 26, 2026
Re — VA Mesothelioma & Asbestos Benefits Guide is written for people who are often not in the best position to fight with a website. Our readers include veterans in their seventies and eighties, people living with a serious respiratory illness, and family members trying to read something important on a phone in a hospital corridor. Accessibility is not a formality for this audience — it is the difference between the information being usable and not.
Our Commitment
We aim to conform to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 at Level AA. That standard is the reference point for most accessibility law and practice internationally, and it is the target we design and write against. Accessibility is treated as an ongoing obligation rather than a one-time project.
What We Do
- Proper document structure. Pages use real headings in a logical order, so screen reader users can move through an article by section rather than listening to it end to end.
- Descriptive links. Link text describes where the link goes. We avoid “click here” and bare URLs, which are meaningless when read out of context.
- Alternative text on images. Every image carries alt text describing what it shows.
- Readable contrast and type. Text is set at a comfortable size with sufficient contrast against its background, and the layout reflows when text is enlarged or the page is zoomed. Nothing depends on colour alone to convey meaning.
- Keyboard navigation. The site can be navigated without a mouse, and interactive elements are reachable in a sensible order.
- Responsive layout. Pages adapt to phones, tablets and desktops without horizontal scrolling.
- Plain language. This is an accessibility measure in its own right. We write in short sentences, define terms such as “nexus” and “service connection” on first use, and avoid unnecessary jargon and acronyms — which also helps readers with cognitive fatigue, a common effect of serious illness and its treatment.
- No obstruction. There are no pop-ups demanding an email address, no interstitials between you and the content, no auto-playing audio or video, and no content hidden behind a form.
Known Limitations
We want to be honest about the gaps rather than claim perfection.
Third-party advertising. Advertisements are served by external networks and their markup, contrast and behaviour are outside our control. Some advertisements may not meet the standard we apply to our own content. We can report problem advertisements to the network but cannot rewrite them.
External documents. We link to official government pages and PDFs. The accessibility of those destinations is a matter for the organisations that publish them.
Ongoing review. New content is written to these standards, but the site is reviewed periodically rather than continuously, so an individual page may fall short before we notice. That is precisely what the feedback route below is for.
Assistive Technology
The site is built with standard, semantic HTML, which is what screen readers, magnifiers, voice control and browser reading modes are designed to interpret. Browser features such as increasing text size, using reader mode, or having a page read aloud should all work normally here.
Tell Us About a Problem
If any part of this site is difficult or impossible for you to use, please tell us at support@re.teerresulttoday.live. It helps if you can include the page address, what you were trying to do, and what happened — and, if you know it, the browser, device or assistive technology you were using.
We aim to acknowledge accessibility reports within a few business days and to fix problems in our own content as quickly as we reasonably can. If something cannot be fixed straight away, we will tell you and try to get you the information another way, including by sending the content of a page directly by email.
Related Pages
Our writing and review standards are set out in our Editorial Policy, and other ways to reach us are listed on our Contact Us page.