Accessibility statement

Accessibility options built into the dashboard

The Accessibility button in the top navigation opens a settings panel. Choices are stored in your browser only (no account, no server copy) and apply to every page:

• Appearance — light, dark, or follow your operating system setting.
• Chart colours — Default, a red–green safe Okabe–Ito palette (deuteranopia and protanopia), a blue–yellow safe palette (tritanopia), and a high-contrast monochrome palette that separates series by lightness alone.
• Text size — Default, Large, Larger and Largest (up to 150%). Layouts reflow rather than clipping content.
• Always underline links — never rely on colour alone to spot a link.
• Reduce motion — removes transitions and chart animations. The dashboard also honours the operating system prefers-reduced-motion setting.
• Simplified mobile view — linked from the same panel, or directly at the mobile dashboard. It shows one topic at a time in a single column, with large touch targets, phone-sized charts and tables laid out as stacked cards instead of wide grids.

Charts and tables

Every chart has a matching data table: use the Chart / Table toggle on any indicator card to read the same figures as text that a screen reader can navigate. Charts can show numeric value labels via the Labels toggle, so a series can be read without comparing colours. Series can be filtered individually, and each table can be downloaded as CSV or JSON.

Keyboard and screen reader use

• All navigation, filters, toggles and dialogs are reachable and operable by keyboard.
• Interactive controls have visible focus indicators.
• Menus, dialogs and popovers are built on accessible primitives with correct roles, focus management and Esc dismissal.
• Icon-only buttons carry text labels for screen readers.
• Each page has a single main heading, semantic landmarks and descriptive page titles.

Conformance

The dashboard aims to conform to WCAG 2.2 level AA. Colour contrast, keyboard operation, text resizing, target sizes and non-colour-dependent information have been reviewed manually. Conformance is self-assessed and not yet independently audited, so some content may fall short.

Known limitations

• Dense multi-series charts remain hard to read at very large text sizes; use the table view or the data explorer to compare specific series instead.
• Some table captions and category labels are reproduced verbatim from the source report and can be long or abbreviated.
• The source PDF published by Directorate for Health Information and Research is outside our control and may not be fully accessible.

Feedback

If any part of this dashboard blocks you, please tell us and we will fix it. Accessibility reports about the dashboard go to Dr Stefan Buttigieg, Specialist in Public Health Medicine: info@stefanbuttigieg.com. Please say which page you were on, what you were trying to do, and which assistive technology or settings you use. We aim to reply within five working days.

Questions about the survey data, methodology or figures themselves belong to Directorate for Health Information and Research: health.info@gov.mt.

Statement details

This statement applies to this dashboard only, not to any website of Directorate for Health Information and Research. It was prepared on 2 September 2026 based on a manual review of the dashboard's pages, components and colour tokens.