AccessibleBathGuide.com publishes content on accessible bathroom remodeling, aging-in-place renovations, and ADA-compliant bathroom design. Topics in this category sit close to readers' health, safety, and household decisions — content here can shape choices that are expensive to reverse and consequential for the people who live with them. We hold ourselves to publishing standards appropriate to that responsibility.

This page describes how content on this site is sourced, researched, and maintained.

Editorial process

Content is researched and drafted from primary sources — the 2010 ADA Standards for Accessible Design, AOTA practice guidance, federal-agency program documentation (VA, Medicaid, Medicare, HUD), peer-reviewed clinical literature, and recognized industry standards (ANSI, ICC, NAR/NARI). Drafts are checked against those sources before publication and again at scheduled review intervals.

Articles do not present individualized clinical recommendations. Where a reader's situation involves complex mobility, post-stroke recovery, progressive neurological conditions, or any case where transfer mechanics or caregiver dynamics drive the decision, our content routes the reader to an in-home occupational therapist evaluation rather than positioning the site as a substitute for one. Throughout the site, the AOTA's home-modifications resource is the recommended starting point for finding an OT in this specialty.

Citation standards

Articles cite primary sources for technical, clinical, and regulatory claims. Primary sources include:

  • 2010 ADA Standards for Accessible Design for code-derived dimensions, threshold maximums, grab bar specs, and clearances
  • AOTA position papers and practice guidance for occupational therapy clinical guidance referenced in editorial content
  • Peer-reviewed clinical research for condition-specific design and rehabilitation literature
  • CDC, NIA, and federal-agency data for fall-risk, demographic, and population-level health statistics
  • NAR + NARI Remodeling Impact Report and Zonda Media Cost vs. Value Report for cost and renovation-economics figures
  • Manufacturer install guides and industry standards (ANSI, ICC) for product-specific specifications

Articles do not cite contractor blogs, product-marketing pages, or aggregator sites as authoritative sources. When secondary sources appear in research, the underlying primary source is identified and cited directly.

Disclosure and compensation

We disclose every commercial relationship that touches editorial content.

Affiliate links. Some articles contain affiliate links to products discussed in the editorial context. AccessibleBathGuide.com may earn a commission if you purchase through one of these links, at no additional cost to you. Affiliate relationships do not influence which products we cover, what we say about them, or whether we recommend them. The standard footer disclosure appears on every page that carries an affiliate link.

No contractor compensation. We do not accept payment from contractors, manufacturers, walk-in tub franchises, or service providers in exchange for editorial coverage, recommendation, or placement. Reviews and recommendations are based on editorial evaluation. The find-a-contractor functionality, when it launches, is governed by its own disclosed methodology — separate from editorial content.

No undisclosed sponsorship. If an article is sponsored, supported, or in any way commercially influenced, that relationship is disclosed at the top of the article in plain language. We have no plans to publish sponsored content; if that changes, the disclosure standard changes with it.

Update cadence

  • Cost figures — reviewed quarterly. Cost ranges, government-program eligibility figures, and economic statistics get refreshed against current primary-source releases.
  • Regulatory references — checked when ADA, ANSI, or relevant federal standards publish revisions or updates.
  • Full editorial review — every article reviewed and refreshed at minimum once every twelve months.
  • Last-updated date — displayed on every article. The date reflects actual review, not rotation theater.

When an article is corrected after publication, the correction is logged at the bottom of the article with the date and a brief description of what changed.

How we approach health-adjacent content

Content on this site is not medical advice. We provide editorial guidance on bathroom design, accessibility planning, and renovation decisions; we do not provide individualized clinical recommendations. An Occupational Therapist evaluation in a reader's own home is the appropriate basis for individual clinical decisions, and our content consistently routes readers toward that evaluation rather than positioning the site as a substitute for it.

For Your-Money-Your-Life decisions in this category, we follow Google's E-E-A-T framework — Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, Trustworthiness — as a baseline editorial discipline. The primary-source citation rule, the routing of complex clinical questions to in-home OT evaluation, and the full disclosure of commercial relationships are the operational expressions of that discipline.

Analytics and privacy

The audience for this site is family caregivers researching aging-parent decisions. The decisions are emotionally heavy, often urgent, and often made under time pressure. Surveillance-style analytics behind editorial commitments to clinical sourcing and disclosure would read as inconsistent — so this site does not use them.

What we don't collect:

  • No advertising pixels, ever — no Google Ads, no Meta Pixel, no LinkedIn Insight, no third-party retargeting.
  • No session recording, no heatmaps, no behavioral replay tools (no Hotjar, no FullStory, no Microsoft Clarity).
  • No third-party trackers bundled with theme components, fonts, or other dependencies.
  • No selling of any data, ever.
  • No IP addresses logged.
  • No full ZIP codes logged (the find-a-contractor form derives only the two-letter state from a ZIP for aggregate analytics; the full ZIP never reaches the analytics layer).
  • No user-agent strings beyond the coarse browser/OS rollup our analytics tool produces.
  • No persistent identifiers that would let us recognize a returning visitor or stitch a single visitor's actions across the site into a session profile.

What we do collect, in aggregate:

  • Page views (anonymous count of how many people loaded each page).
  • Anonymous browser/OS/country rollup (the categorical buckets our analytics tool reports — no individual identification).
  • Scroll-depth milestones (did readers reach 25%, 50%, 75%, 90% of the page).
  • Reading-time milestones (did readers stay 30 seconds, 1 minute, 2 minutes, 5 minutes — counted only when the browser tab is visible).
  • FAQ expansions (which FAQ entries readers open, in aggregate count — used to spot questions readers care about that we should turn into dedicated content).
  • Link clicks (which internal cross-references and which outbound citations get clicked, in aggregate; outbound clicks record only the destination domain, not the full URL).

All of these are anonymous counts, never associated with an identifiable visitor.

Corrections and reader feedback

If you find an error, an outdated figure, or a claim that doesn't match a primary source, please email us at contact@accessiblebathguide.com. Substantive corrections are made promptly and logged on the article itself. We treat corrections as a feature of credible publishing, not an embarrassment to bury.

For broader feedback on coverage, scope, or topics you'd like to see covered, the same address works.

This page describes our standards as of the date above. We update it when our practices change, with the change reflected in the last-updated date.