diff --git a/app/index.html b/app/index.html
index 163d17d6..986102c6 100755
--- a/app/index.html
+++ b/app/index.html
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <!DOCTYPE html>
-<html>
+<html lang="en">
   <head>
     <meta charset="utf-8">
     <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
diff --git a/app/styles/app.scss b/app/styles/app.scss
index 30072fa2..01a6b3ea 100644
--- a/app/styles/app.scss
+++ b/app/styles/app.scss
@@ -4,19 +4,23 @@
 
 $green: #53baa1;
 $dark-grey: #505759;
+$orange: #e89005;
 $light-grey: #efefef;
-$orange: #da3200;
-$mustard: #e89005;
-$beige: #d3bdb0;
+$raspberry: #e0004d;
+$purple: #520c70;
 $black: #293030;
 
 
-
 $phone-width: 420px;
 $tablet-width: 768px;
 $desktop-width: 1024px;
 
 // override, color links
+
+.description { 
+	color: $dark-grey !important;
+}
+
 .card {
   h1, h2 {
     font-size: 2rem;
@@ -128,3 +132,13 @@ $desktop-width: 1024px;
   }
 
 }
+
+#filter-button { 
+	background-color:$green;
+	color:$black !important;
+}
+
+#clear-button {
+	background-color:$dark-grey;
+	color:$light-grey !important;
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/app/templates/components/application-header.hbs b/app/templates/components/application-header.hbs
index 3fd9b55e..2d755d68 100755
--- a/app/templates/components/application-header.hbs
+++ b/app/templates/components/application-header.hbs
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
           id="query"
           class="form-control"
           placeholder="Search Registry..."
+          aria-label="Search ROR"
         />
       </form>
     </div>
diff --git a/app/templates/components/application-subscribe.hbs b/app/templates/components/application-subscribe.hbs
index eabc0e95..4352a28e 100644
--- a/app/templates/components/application-subscribe.hbs
+++ b/app/templates/components/application-subscribe.hbs
@@ -5,14 +5,14 @@
         <div class="contact-shortcode">
           <div>
 		<h2>Subscribe to the ROR newsletter</h2> 
-<a target="_blank" class="btn btn-sm btn-round red" rel="noopener" href="http://eepurl.com/gjkT9H">Subscribe</a>
+<a target="_blank" class="btn btn-sm btn-round raspberry" rel="noopener" href="http://eepurl.com/gjkT9H">Subscribe</a>
 		  </div>
         </div>
       </div>
       <div class="col-md-6 text-center">
 			<div>
 				<h2>Suggest an addition or update to ROR</h2>
-				<a target="_blank" class="btn btn-sm btn-round red" rel="noopener" href="https://curation-request.ror.org">Suggest</a>
+				<a target="_blank" class="btn btn-sm btn-round raspberry" rel="noopener" href="https://curation-request.ror.org">Suggest</a>
 			</div>
       </div>
     </div>
diff --git a/app/templates/organizations/about.hbs b/app/templates/organizations/about.hbs
index d458670f..d73a42bb 100644
--- a/app/templates/organizations/about.hbs
+++ b/app/templates/organizations/about.hbs
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 <div class="content">
   <div class="container-fluid">
     <div class="info info-hover">
-      <h4 class="info-title text-primary">Welcome to ROR Search</h4>
-      <p class="description">Research Organization Registry is a community-led project to develop an open, sustainable, usable, and unique identifier for every research organization in the world.</p>
+      <h1 class="info-title">Welcome to ROR Search</h1>
+      <p class="description">The Research Organization Registry (ROR) is global, community-led registry of open persistent identifiers for research and funding organizations.</p>
     </div>
   </div>
 </div>
