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Compliance standing

We firmly consider that the web needs to be accessible and accessible to anybody, and are dedicated to offering a web site that’s accessible to the widest potential viewers,
no matter circumstance and skill.

To fulfill this, we purpose to stick as strictly as potential to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) on the AA stage.
These pointers clarify the best way to make net content material accessible to folks with a wide selection of disabilities. Complying with these pointers helps us make sure that the web site is accessible
to all folks: blind folks, folks with motor impairments, visible impairment, cognitive disabilities, and extra.

This web site makes use of numerous applied sciences that are supposed to make it as accessible as potential always. We make the most of an accessibility interface that permits individuals with particular
disabilities to regulate the web site’s UI (consumer interface) and design it to their private wants.

Additionally, the web site makes use of an AI-based utility that runs within the background and optimizes its accessibility stage continually. This utility remediates the web site’s HTML,
adapts Its performance and conduct for screen-readers utilized by the blind customers, and for keyboard features utilized by people with motor impairments.

If you’ve discovered a malfunction or have concepts for enchancment, we’ll be blissful to listen to from you. You can attain out to the web site’s operators by utilizing the next electronic mail

Screen-reader and keyboard navigation

Our web site implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) method, alongside numerous totally different behavioral modifications, to make sure blind customers visiting with
screen-readers are capable of learn, comprehend, and benefit from the web site’s features. As quickly as a consumer with a screen-reader enters your website, they instantly obtain
a immediate to enter the Screen-Reader Profile to allow them to browse and function your website successfully. Here’s how our web site covers among the most vital screen-reader necessities,
alongside console screenshots of code examples:

1. Screen-reader optimization: we run a background course of that learns the web site’s elements from high to backside, to make sure ongoing compliance even when updating the web site.
   In this course of, we offer screen-readers with significant knowledge utilizing the ARIA set of attributes. For instance, we offer correct kind labels;
   descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, and so forth.); validation steering for kind inputs; ingredient roles resembling buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups),
   and others. Additionally, the background course of scans all the web site’s photographs and supplies an correct and significant image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate textual content) tag
   for photographs that aren’t described. It will even extract texts which can be embedded inside the picture, utilizing an OCR (optical character recognition) expertise.
   To activate screen-reader changes at any time, customers want solely to press the Alt+1 keyboard mixture. Screen-reader customers additionally get automated bulletins to show the Screen-reader mode on
   as quickly as they enter the web site.

   These changes are appropriate with all standard display readers, together with JAWS and NVDA.

2. Keyboard navigation optimization: The background course of additionally adjusts the web site’s HTML, and provides numerous behaviors utilizing JavaScript code to make the web site operable by the keyboard. This contains the flexibility to navigate the web site utilizing the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, function dropdowns with the arrow keys, shut them with Esc, set off buttons and hyperlinks utilizing the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox components utilizing the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard customers will discover quick-navigation and content-skip menus, accessible at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the primary components of the location whereas navigating with the keyboard. The background course of additionally handles triggered popups by shifting the keyboard focus in the direction of them as quickly as they seem, and not permit the main focus drift outdoors it.

   Users may also use shortcuts resembling “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (varieties), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to leap to particular components.

Disability profiles supported in our web site

• Epilepsy Safe Mode: this profile allows folks with epilepsy to make use of the web site safely by eliminating the chance of seizures that end result from flashing or blinking animations and dangerous coloration mixtures.
• Visually Impaired Mode: this mode adjusts the web site for the comfort of customers with visible impairments resembling Degrading Eyesight, Tunnel Vision, Cataract, Glaucoma, and others.
• Cognitive Disability Mode: this mode supplies totally different assistive choices to assist customers with cognitive impairments resembling Dyslexia, Autism, CVA, and others, to deal with the important components of the web site extra simply.
• ADHD Friendly Mode: this mode helps customers with ADHD and Neurodevelopmental issues to learn, browse, and deal with the primary web site components extra simply whereas considerably lowering distractions.
• Blindness Mode: this mode configures the web site to be appropriate with screen-readers resembling JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver, and TalkBack. A screen-reader is software program for blind customers that’s put in on a pc and smartphone, and web sites have to be appropriate with it.
• Keyboard Navigation Profile (Motor-Impaired): this profile allows motor-impaired individuals to function the web site utilizing the keyboard Tab, Shift+Tab, and the Enter keys. Users may also use shortcuts resembling “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (varieties), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to leap to particular components.

Additional UI, design, and readability changes

1. Font changes – customers, can enhance and lower its dimension, change its household (sort), alter the spacing, alignment, line peak, and extra.
2. Color changes – customers can choose numerous coloration distinction profiles resembling mild, darkish, inverted, and monochrome. Additionally, customers can swap coloration schemes of titles, texts, and backgrounds, with over seven totally different coloring choices.
3. Animations – particular person with epilepsy can cease all operating animations with the clicking of a button. Animations managed by the interface embrace movies, GIFs, and CSS flashing transitions.
4. Content highlighting – customers can select to emphasise vital components resembling hyperlinks and titles. They may also select to focus on targeted or hovered components solely.
5. Audio muting – customers with listening to units might expertise complications or different points on account of automated audio taking part in. This choice lets customers mute the whole web site immediately.
6. Cognitive issues – we make the most of a search engine that’s linked to Wikipedia and Wiktionary, permitting folks with cognitive issues to decipher meanings of phrases, initials, slang, and others.
7. Additional features – we offer customers the choice to alter cursor coloration and dimension, use a printing mode, allow a digital keyboard, and many different features.

Browser and assistive expertise compatibility

We purpose to assist the widest array of browsers and assistive applied sciences as potential, so our customers can select the very best becoming instruments for them, with as few limitations as potential. Therefore, we have now labored very exhausting to have the ability to assist all main programs that comprise over 95% of the consumer market share together with Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (display readers).

Notes, feedback, and suggestions

Despite our best possible efforts to permit anyone to regulate the web site to their wants. There should be pages or sections that aren’t totally accessible, are within the strategy of turning into accessible, or are missing an satisfactory technological answer to make them accessible. Still, we’re regularly enhancing our accessibility, including, updating and enhancing its choices and options, and creating and adopting new applied sciences. All that is meant to achieve the optimum stage of accessibility, following technological developments. For any help, please attain out to