Symptom Checker App

The right care at the right time

Accessibility

Our app is automatically tested (structure, markup) and manually tested for accessibility (keyboard navigation, screen reader support).

Our app is reviewed for compliance with WCAG 2.0 and a11y guidelines for accessibility.

WCAG 2.0

Our app is compliant with WCAG 2.0 checklist Level AAA (Advanced).

The symptom checker app is compliant with the guidelines, but it is possible that you could break compliance with 1.4.1 – Use of Colour (Level A) by providing a bootstrap theme that does not follow the guidelines.

Here are some helpful resources:

A11Y

Our symptom checker app depends on the use of javascript and requires javascript to be enabled. With the exception of the javascript section, the symptom checker app can be compliant with the Web Accessibility Checklist. It is possible to break compliance by using colors with insufficient contrast in your bootstrap 4 theme.

When designing your theme, consider the following guidelines:

Color and Contrast – the colors that you assign in your bootstrap theme should use colors with sufficient contrast between text and its background.
Contrast Checker

The A11Y guidelines discourage the use of inline scripts. Our embed script includes a short inline script. We recommend this because it simplifies implementation and keeps the implementation details for our application grouped together on the host page. If you are concerned with this recommendation, please move this part of the embed script to a local javascript file.

About Sue

Sue is often the first point of contact for AppCatalyst. She has worked as a healthcare consultant since the late 1990’s and has a natural bent for shaping ideas into solutions. To complement those skills, Sue is certified in User Experience (UX) and, at times, leads usability testing with the audiences of our projects. She gets involved with content: making it consistent, transforming it into plain-language and working on localizations for international projects.

She balances work with anything outdoors:

Currently hiking her way through every National Park
Certified Interpretive Trainer (naturalist)
Cheered for the home team in every major baseball stadium (with husband Tom)

Tony Horne

About Tony

Tony has been working with healthcare clients for 20 years, helping them craft digital strategies to engage prospective customers and re-connect with current ones. He is excited to share all the new solutions from AppCatalyst with healthcare clients across the Southeast from his base in North Carolina.

In his spare time, Tony can be found:

‘Botanizing’ in the southern Appalachians
Or in bogs and swamps, hunting native plants to photograph

AppCatalyst Lead Software Developer Erik Altman

About Erik

Erik is a full-stack web and iOS developer with a passion for designing highly-usable applications and programming interfaces. He is focused on the design and development of modular software and is enthusiastic about modern application architectures. Erik follows the open source development community closely and loves to contribute code, documentation and guidance whenever he can.

When he is not designing, developing or documenting applications, Erik enjoys:

Surfing, skateboarding, snowboarding, mountain biking
Hiking around with his wife Linae and adorable dog Roni
The arts of photography, graphic design and crochet

AppCatalyst Director of Operations Cheryl Baker

About Cheryl

Cheryl is our client’s main point of contact for our Surgery Partner product. She manages several aspects of our content and the QA process. For the 10 years prior to joining AppCatalyst, Cheryl was responsible for clinical content management, training and documentation. She worked closely with nearly 100 healthcare clients, optimizing their use of the software. She was also a key player in software development projects.

Outside of work, Cheryl enjoys:

Traveling, especially to Hawaii
Spending time with family and friends

AppCatalyst Client Relations Manager Hannah Burgus

About Hannah

Once an app idea starts to move forward, Hannah’s role begins. She is the main point of contact throughout implementation and maintenance. Hannah works alongside our clients from initial scoping through successful app launch, ensuring all details are addressed. Hannah is certified in project management (PMP), which lends to a successful and positive client experience from the beginning.

Some interesting facts about Hannah include, she:

Learned to play golf before she turned 5
Grew up on a Sesquicentennial family farm in rural Iowa (still her favorite place)
Planned and led a group of 13 on a service trip to assist impoverished women in Nashville, TN

About Joseph

Joseph heads up our technical team. He started working in healthcare technology as a way to put himself through college in the late 1990’s. He understands where new technologies are going and uses that knowledge to further our clients’ goals. He has a passion for understanding and solving problems. He can bring business needs together with technology solutions and communicate those effectively.

Outside of work, Joseph:

Coaches a Lego League Robotics team
Teaches Taekwondo
Is a scout leader for the Boy Scouts

AppCatalyst Software Developer Ben Rogers

About Ben

Ben first joined the team to help out with iPhone app programming. Since then, he has migrated to work more on the server side of the applications, using his knowledge of C# and TSQL. Ben enjoys the new and interesting challenges this brings. He loves to think about solutions to problems that may arise.

When he’s not in front of a computer, Ben enjoys:

Spending time with his family
Being outdoors
Working on projects around the house

AppCatalyst Software Developer Chris Sims

About Chris

Chris works primarily as an Android developer, but also manages our Google Analytics design and assists in software test design. His professional interests lie primarily in distributed systems, but he‘s eager to explore every mode of software development he comes across. Thus, Chris wishes there were five copies of him to engage all of them.

When not working, Chris enjoys:

Good conversation
Playing pickup basketball

AppCatalyst Software Developer Taylor Cameron

About Taylor

Taylor is a software developer, primarily developing and maintaining our iOS applications. He gets involved with designing and implementing new features for client applications, as well as for our own company’s software tools. An important aspect of Taylor’s job is actively researching new technologies in order to stay current with best practices.

When he’s not working, Taylor enjoys:

Playing tennis
Hiking with his dog, Clifford
Traveling