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Compliance standing

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

To meet this, we intention to stick as strictly as potential to the World Huge Internet Consortium’s (W3C) Internet Content material Accessibility Tips 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) on the AA degree.
These pointers clarify easy methods to make net content material accessible to individuals with a big selection of disabilities. Complying with these pointers helps us make sure that the web site is accessible
to all individuals: blind individuals, individuals 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 enables individuals with particular
disabilities to regulate the web site’s UI (person interface) and design it to their private wants.

Moreover, the web site makes use of an AI-based software that runs within the background and optimizes its accessibility degree always. This software 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.

Should you’ve discovered a malfunction or have concepts for enchancment, we’ll be glad to listen to from you. You may attain out to the web site’s operators through the use of the next e-mail

Display screen-reader and keyboard navigation

Our web site implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Wealthy Web Functions) approach, alongside numerous totally different behavioral adjustments, to make sure blind customers visiting with
screen-readers are in a position to learn, comprehend, and benefit from the web site’s features. As quickly as a person with a screen-reader enters your website, they instantly obtain
a immediate to enter the Display screen-Reader Profile to allow them to browse and function your website successfully. Right here’s how our web site covers among the most necessary screen-reader necessities,
alongside console screenshots of code examples:

1. Display screen-reader optimization: we run a background course of that learns the web site’s parts from prime to backside, to make sure ongoing compliance even when updating the web site.
   On this course of, we offer screen-readers with significant knowledge utilizing the ARIA set of attributes. For instance, we offer correct type labels;
   descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, and many others.); validation steerage for type inputs; component roles resembling buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups),
   and others. Moreover, 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’s going to additionally extract texts which are 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. Display screen-reader customers additionally get automated bulletins to show the Display screen-reader mode on
   as quickly as they enter the web site.

   These changes are suitable with all common display screen 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 power 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 parts utilizing the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Moreover, keyboard customers will discover quick-navigation and content-skip menus, out there at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the primary parts of the location whereas navigating with the keyboard. The background course of additionally handles triggered popups by shifting the keyboard focus in direction of them as quickly as they seem, and never permit the main target drift exterior it.

   Customers may use shortcuts resembling “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (kinds), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to leap to particular parts.

Incapacity profiles supported in our web site

• Epilepsy Protected Mode: this profile allows individuals with epilepsy to make use of the web site safely by eliminating the danger of seizures that outcome from flashing or blinking animations and dangerous shade mixtures.
• Visually Impaired Mode: this mode adjusts the web site for the comfort of customers with visible impairments resembling Degrading Eyesight, Tunnel Imaginative and prescient, Cataract, Glaucoma, and others.
• Cognitive Incapacity Mode: this mode supplies totally different assistive choices to assist customers with cognitive impairments resembling Dyslexia, Autism, CVA, and others, to concentrate on the important parts of the web site extra simply.
• ADHD Pleasant Mode: this mode helps customers with ADHD and Neurodevelopmental problems to learn, browse, and concentrate on the primary web site parts extra simply whereas considerably lowering distractions.
• Blindness Mode: this mode configures the web site to be suitable with screen-readers resembling JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver, and TalkBack. A screen-reader is software program for blind customers that’s put in on a laptop and smartphone, and web sites should be suitable 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. Customers may use shortcuts resembling “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (kinds), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to leap to particular parts.

Further UI, design, and readability changes

1. Font changes – customers, can improve and reduce its measurement, change its household (sort), regulate the spacing, alignment, line peak, and extra.
2. Shade changes – customers can choose numerous shade distinction profiles resembling gentle, darkish, inverted, and monochrome. Moreover, customers can swap shade schemes of titles, texts, and backgrounds, with over seven totally different coloring choices.
3. Animations – individual with epilepsy can cease all working animations with the clicking of a button. Animations managed by the interface embrace movies, GIFs, and CSS flashing transitions.
4. Content material highlighting – customers can select to emphasise necessary parts resembling hyperlinks and titles. They will additionally select to focus on centered or hovered parts solely.
5. Audio muting – customers with listening to gadgets could expertise complications or different points on account of automated audio enjoying. This feature lets customers mute the complete web site immediately.
6. Cognitive problems – we make the most of a search engine that’s linked to Wikipedia and Wiktionary, permitting individuals with cognitive problems to decipher meanings of phrases, initials, slang, and others.
7. Further features – we offer customers the choice to alter cursor shade and measurement, use a printing mode, allow a digital keyboard, and plenty of different features.

Browser and assistive expertise compatibility

We intention to assist the widest array of browsers and assistive applied sciences as potential, so our customers can select the most effective becoming instruments for them, with as few limitations as potential. Subsequently, we’ve labored very onerous to have the ability to assist all main programs that comprise over 95% of the person market share together with Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (display screen readers).

Notes, feedback, and suggestions

Regardless of our easiest efforts to permit anyone to regulate the web site to their wants. There should be pages or sections that aren’t absolutely accessible, are within the strategy of changing into accessible, or are missing an sufficient technological answer to make them accessible. Nonetheless, we’re regularly bettering our accessibility, including, updating and bettering its choices and options, and growing and adopting new applied sciences. All that is meant to succeed in the optimum degree of accessibility, following technological developments. For any help, please attain out to