Accessibility Statement

Our Commitment

This site is a health reference resource intended for foreign residents and visitors in Japan who may be navigating an unfamiliar medical system. That readership includes people with visual, motor, or cognitive disabilities, and people who rely on assistive technology to access the web. Accessibility is not optional for a site with this purpose.

We aim to meet WCAG 2.1 Level AA across all pages. Where we fall short, we treat that as a bug, not an acceptable variation.

Standards and Approach

Pages on this site are built as static HTML with semantic structure: heading hierarchy (h1 → h2 → h3), descriptive link text, and landmark regions (header, main, nav, footer). All meaningful images carry descriptive alt text. Purely decorative elements use empty alt attributes.

Color is not the only means of conveying information. Contrast ratios for body text, link text, and interactive elements meet or exceed the 4.5:1 minimum for normal text and 3:1 for large text (WCAG 1.4.3). These ratios are checked in both light and dark display modes.

All interactive elements — navigation links, inline links, and footer links — are keyboard-focusable and display a visible focus indicator. Tab order follows the visual reading order of the page. No interactive traps or focus hijacking are present.

Multilingual Content

This archive covers content in nine languages: English, Chinese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Filipino, Thai, Vietnamese, and Japanese. Each language-specific page sets the appropriate lang attribute on the HTML element, enabling screen readers and translation tools to identify the primary language of the content correctly.

Where a page mixes languages — for example, when Japanese administrative terms appear in an English-language explanation — the inline language is marked with the lang attribute on the relevant span. This helps screen reader software switch pronunciation engines appropriately.

Forms Library

The forms library documents the categories and structure of health administration forms available through the original AMDA-IMIC service. These are reference pages, not functional forms. No form submissions are accepted on this site, and there are no CAPTCHA challenges, time-limited sessions, or input validation sequences that could impede assistive technology users.

PDF and Document References

Some pages reference PDF documents that were hosted on the original amda-imic.com domain. This archive does not host those PDFs directly. Where legacy PDF URLs are documented (for example, in the /oldpage/amdact/PDF/ directory), they redirect to the relevant HTML reference pages in this archive. If you need accessible versions of specific administrative forms, contact the originating institution — the Labor Standards Inspection Office, a prefecture health bureau, or the treating hospital — who should be able to supply documents in an accessible format.

Known Issues

We currently have no open accessibility issues documented on this site. As the archive grows and new sections are added, this section will list any known barriers and the expected timeline for resolution.

If you encounter an issue not listed here, please report it using the method described below.

Reporting Accessibility Barriers

If you encounter a page that you cannot use because of an accessibility barrier — screen reader incompatibility, insufficient contrast, missing alt text, keyboard trap, or anything else — please report it through the contact page with the following information:

• The URL of the page where the barrier occurs
• A description of what you were trying to do and what happened instead
• The assistive technology or browser you were using (e.g., NVDA + Chrome, VoiceOver + Safari)

Accessibility reports are treated as high priority. We aim to acknowledge reports within five business days and to provide an update on resolution within thirty days.

Technical Assistance

If the accessibility barriers you encounter prevent you from accessing content you need, and you cannot wait for a fix, we can in some cases provide the information in an alternative format. Describe what you need through the contact page and we will assess what alternatives are feasible.

For immediate medical or health information needs in Japan that are blocked by an accessibility issue on this site, the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare and JNTO maintain accessible contact and information pathways for foreign residents.

Last reviewed: September 2026