ACCESSIBILITY STATEMENT

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 Prole so they can browse and operate your site eectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements:

•  Screen-readeroptimization:werunaprocessthatlearnsthewebsite’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.

•  Keyboardnavigationoptimization:Thebackgroundprocessalsoadjusts 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 ll them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.

  Additionally, keyboard users will nd content-skip menus available at any time by clicking Alt+2, or as the rst 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 specic elements.

  Disability proles supported on our website

  Epilepsy Safe Prole: this prole enables people with epilepsy to safely use the website by eliminating the risk of seizures resulting from ashing or blinking animations and risky color combinations.

  Vision Impaired Prole: this prole 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 Prole: this prole 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 Prole: this prole signicantly reduces distractions and noise to help people with ADHD, and Neurodevelopmental disorders browse, read, and focus on the essential elements more easily.

  Blind Users Prole (Screen-readers): this prole 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 Prole (Motor-Impaired): this prole 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 specic elements.

  Additional UI, design, and readability adjustments

  •  Fontadjustments–userscanincreaseanddecreaseitssize,changeits family (type), adjust the spacing, alignment, line height, and more.

  •  Coloradjustments–userscanselectvariouscolorcontrastprolessuch as light, dark, inverted, and monochrome. Additionally, users can swap color schemes of titles, texts, and backgrounds with over seven dierent coloring options.

  •  Animations–epilepticuserscanstopallrunninganimationswiththeclick of a button. Animations controlled by the interface include videos, GIFs, and CSS ashing transitions.

  •  Contenthighlighting–userscanchoosetoemphasizeessentialelements such as links and titles. They can also choose to highlight focused or hovered elements only.

  •  Audiomuting–userswithhearingdevicesmayexperienceheadachesor other issues due to automatic audio playing. This option lets users mute the entire website instantly.

  •  Cognitivedisorders–weutilizeasearchenginelinkedtoWikipediaand Wiktionary, allowing people with cognitive disorders to decipher meanings of phrases, initials, slang, and others.

  •  Additionalfunctions–weallowuserstochangecursorcolorandsize, 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 tting 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.

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 orders@sightglasscoee.com