Accessibility for this website is provided through the company accessiBe.
Accessibility Statement
August 31, 2022
Issued by accessiBe
Compliance status
We firmly believe that the internet should be available and accessible to
anyone and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to
the broadest possible audience, regardless of ability.
To fufill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide
Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG
2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content
accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with
those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to blind
people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive
disabilities, and more.
This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as
accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that
allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user
interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the
background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This
application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts its functionality and
behavior for screen-readers used by blind users, and for keyboard
functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
If you wish to contact the website’s owner please use the following email
[email protected]
Screen-reader and keyboard navigation
Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet
Applications) technique, alongside various behavioral changes, to ensure
blind users visiting with screen-readers can read, comprehend, and enjoy
the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters
your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader
Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively.
Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader
requirements:
1. Screen-reader optimization: we run a process that learns the
website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing
compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we
provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of
attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels;
descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons,
cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles
such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others.
Additionally, the background process scans all of the website’s
images. It provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-
recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for
images that are not described. It will also extract texts embedded
within the image using an OCR (optical character recognition)
technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time,
users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-
reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-
reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with popular screen readers
such as JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver, and TalkBack.
2. Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also
adjusts the website’s HTML and adds various behaviors using
JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This
includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and
Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them
with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate
between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill
them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.
Additionally, keyboard users will find content-skip menus available
at any time by clicking Alt+2, or as the first element of the site while
navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles
triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as
soon as they appear, not allowing the focus to drift outside.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F”
(forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific
elements.
Disability profiles supported on our website
Epilepsy Safe Profile: this profile enables people with epilepsy to
safely use the website by eliminating the risk of seizures resulting
from flashing or blinking animations and risky color combinations.
Vision Impaired Profile: this profile adjusts the website so that it is
accessible to the majority of visual impairments such as Degrading
Eyesight, Tunnel Vision, Cataract, Glaucoma, and others.
Cognitive Disability Profile: this profile provides various assistive
features to help users with cognitive disabilities such as Autism,
Dyslexia, CVA, and others, to focus on the essential elements more
easily.
ADHD Friendly Profile: this profile significantly reduces distractions
and noise to help people with ADHD, and Neurodevelopmental
disorders browse, read, and focus on the essential elements more
easily.
Blind Users Profile (Screen-readers): this profile adjusts the
website to be compatible with screen-readers such as JAWS, NVDA,
VoiceOver, and TalkBack. A screen-reader is installed on the blind
user’s computer, and this site is compatible with it.
Keyboard Navigation Profile (Motor-Impaired): this profile
enables motor-impaired persons to operate the website using the
keyboard Tab, Shift+Tab, and the Enter keys. Users can also use
shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B”
(buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
Additional UI, design, and readability adjustments
1. Font adjustments – users can increase and decrease its size,
change its family (type), adjust the spacing, alignment, line
height, and more.
2. Color adjustments – users can select various color contrast profiles
such as light, dark, inverted, and monochrome. Additionally, users
can swap color schemes of titles, texts, and backgrounds with over
seven different coloring options.
3. Animations – epileptic users can stop all running animations with
the click of a button. Animations controlled by the interface include
videos, GIFs, and CSS flashing transitions.
4. Content highlighting – users can choose to emphasize essential
elements such as links and titles. They can also choose to highlight
focused or hovered elements only.
5. Audio muting – users with hearing devices may experience
headaches or other issues due to automatic audio playing. This
option lets users mute the entire website instantly.
6. Cognitive disorders – we utilize a search engine linked to Wikipedia
and Wiktionary, allowing people with cognitive disorders to decipher
meanings of phrases, initials, slang, and others.
7. Additional functions– we allow users to change cursor color and
size, use a printing mode, enable a virtual keyboard, and many
other functions.
Assistive technology and browser compatibility
We aim to support as many browsers and assistive technologies as
possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as
few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be
able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user
market share, including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari,
Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS, and NVDA (screen readers), both for
Windows and MAC users.
Notes, comments, and feedback
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to
their needs, there may still be pages or sections that are not fully
accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an
adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are
continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating, improving its
options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All
this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility following
technological advancements. If you wish to contact the website’s owner,
please use the following email [email protected]
A PDF version of the accessibility statement is available upon request via email. Please email [email protected] for a copy of our accessibility statement provided by accessiBe.