Accessibility Statement

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 fulfil 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, vision 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 behaviour for screen-readers used by blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.

If you require further assistance, please contact us.

Screen-reader and Keyboard Navigation

Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various behavioural 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.

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
  • 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 OCR (optical character recognition) technology.

To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination.

These adjustments are compatible with popular screen readers such as:

  • JAWS
  • NVDA
  • VoiceOver
  • TalkBack

Keyboard Navigation Optimization

The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML and adds various behaviours 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 arrow keys
  • Close them with Esc
  • Trigger buttons and links using the Enter key
  • Navigate between radio and checkbox elements using arrow keys
  • 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.

Users can also use shortcuts such as:

  • “M” (menus)
  • “H” (headings)
  • “F” (forms)
  • “B” (buttons)
  • “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 colour 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
  • Others

Cognitive Disability Profile

This profile provides various assistive features to help users with cognitive disabilities such as:

  • Autism
  • Dyslexia
  • CVA
  • 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
  • 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.

Additional UI, Design, and Readability Adjustments

Font Adjustments

Users can:

  • Increase and decrease font size
  • Change font family
  • Adjust spacing
  • Adjust alignment
  • Modify line height
  • And more

Colour Adjustments

Users can select various colour contrast profiles such as:

  • Light
  • Dark
  • Inverted
  • Monochrome

Additionally, users can swap colour schemes of titles, texts, and backgrounds with over seven different colouring options.

Animations

Epileptic users can stop all running animations with the click of a button.

Animations controlled by the interface include:

  • Videos
  • GIFs
  • CSS flashing transitions

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.

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.

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.

Additional Functions

We allow users to:

  • Change cursor colour 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 support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share, including:

  • Google Chrome
  • Mozilla Firefox
  • Apple Safari
  • Opera
  • Microsoft Edge

as well as:

  • JAWS
  • NVDA

for both 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 require further assistance, please contact us.

We use a third-party accessibility solution provided by accessiBe to help support compliance with recognised web accessibility standards and improve usability for all visitors.