Accessibility Statement

General

We are committed to ensuring that this website is accessible to everyone, regardless of ability. Our belief is that everyone deserves equal access, dignity, and independence online.

Accessibility

The website incorporates an accessibility overlay powered by AxOrigin to enhance compliance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. This overlay allows users to customize their experience to meet their specific accessibility needs through an intuitive interface.

Enabling the Accessibility Menu

The accessibility menu can be activated by clicking the accessibility icon or by pressing Ctrl + Shift + A keyboard shortcut. Once activated, please allow a brief moment for the menu to fully load.

Screen-Reader and Keyboard Navigation

The website is optimized for screen-readers and keyboard navigation to ensure usability for individuals with visual or motor impairments. Key features include:

• Screen-Reader Optimization: We implement ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) attributes to provide meaningful data to screen-readers, including form labels, actionable icon descriptions, and validation guidance. A background process uses AI to optimize HTML, scan images for accurate ALT text descriptions. Users can activate inbuilt screen-reader by pressing Ctrl + Alt + S.

• Keyboard Navigation Optimization: The website supports full keyboard navigation using keys such as Tab, Shift+Tab, Enter, Esc, and arrow keys for dropdowns and form elements.

Supported Disability Profiles

AxOrigin Accessibility widget supports various profiles to accommodate different needs:

• Dyslexia Profile: Stop animations, dyslexia font, improved spacing, and highlighted elements.

• Motor Impaired: Big cursor, voice controls, virtual keyboard, and text magnifier.

• Visually Impaired: Smart contrast, readable fonts, magnifier, and enhanced visibility.

• Blind: Screen reader support and voice navigation for non-visual access.

• Hearing Impaired: Mute sounds and hide videos for silent browsing.

• Elderly Friendly: Enhanced text size, magnifier, voice controls, and simplified interface.

• Cognitive Support: Reading mask, text magnifier, and reduced distractions for focus.

• Seizure & Epileptic: Stop animations, reading guide, and dark contrast for safety.

• ADHD Friendly: Reading mask, focus enhancement, and distraction reduction.

Additional Accessibility Features

• Text & Typography: Users can modify font size, type, spacing, alignment, and line height.

• Contrast & Colors: Options include light, dark, inverted, or monochrome contrast profiles, with customizable color schemes for text, titles, and backgrounds.

• Media & Visual Adjustments: Epileptic users can stop animations, including videos, GIFs, and CSS transitions.

• Highlighting: Users can emphasize links, titles, or focused/hovered elements.

• Cursors & Pointers: Users can adjust cursors to big black or big white or can use reading guide.

• Color Blindness Support: Simulates color Blindness for different color vision deficiency.

• Additional Tools: Options to change enable a virtual keyboard, online dictionary, skip links, multi-language support, content summary, userful links.

Browser and Assistive Technology Compatibility

We strive to support major browsers (Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera, Microsoft Edge) and assistive technologies (JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver, TalkBack) for both Windows and macOS, covering over 95% of the user market share.

Ongoing Commitment

We continuously work to improve accessibility by using our advanced tools to identify and resolve barriers. Despite our efforts, some content may not yet fully meet the strictest accessibility standards due to technological limitations. We are actively addressing these challenges and adopting new solutions as they become available.

Contact Us

If you encounter any accessibility issues, have questions, or need assistance with our website or services, please contact our support team during regular business hours. We are here to help.

Contact Form: Use the website’s contact form to reach out .

Feedback

We welcome feedback to enhance AxOrigin accessibility widget. If you have suggestions or encounter sections that are not fully accessible, please write to us at support@axorigin.org, and we will work to address them promptly.