Accessibility Assertion
- www.capetown.journey
- 8 Might 2024
Compliance standing
We firmly consider that the web ought to be out there and accessible to anybody, and are dedicated to offering a web site that’s accessible to the widest potential viewers,
no matter circumstance and talent.
To meet this, we intention to stick as strictly as potential to the World Vast Net Consortium’s (W3C) Net Content material Accessibility Tips 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) on the AA stage.
These tips clarify make net content material accessible to individuals with a big selection of disabilities. Complying with these tips 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 varied 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 utility that runs within the background and optimizes its accessibility stage continuously. 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.
In the event you’ve discovered a malfunction or have concepts for enchancment, we’ll be completely satisfied to listen to from you. You’ll be able to attain out to the web site’s operators through the use of the next e-mail
Display-reader and keyboard navigation
Our web site implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Wealthy Web Purposes) approach, alongside varied 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-Reader Profile to allow them to browse and function your website successfully. Right here’s how our web site covers a few of the most vital screen-reader necessities,
alongside console screenshots of code examples:
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Display-reader optimization: we run a background course of that learns the web site’s elements 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 steering for type inputs; factor roles comparable to buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups),
and others. Moreover, the background course of scans all the web site’s photos and gives an correct and significant image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate textual content) tag
for photos that aren’t described. It’s going to additionally 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. Display-reader customers additionally get computerized bulletins to show the Display-reader mode on
as quickly as they enter the web site.These changes are appropriate with all common display screen readers, together with JAWS and NVDA.
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Keyboard navigation optimization: The background course of additionally adjusts the web site’s HTML, and provides varied behaviors utilizing JavaScript code to make the web site operable by the keyboard. This consists of 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.Moreover, keyboard customers will discover quick-navigation and content-skip menus, out there 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 direction of them as quickly as they seem, and never permit the main target drift exterior it.
Customers may use shortcuts comparable to “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (kinds), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to leap to particular components.
Incapacity profiles supported in our web site
- Epilepsy Protected Mode: this profile permits individuals with epilepsy to make use of the web site safely by eliminating the chance 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 comparable to Degrading Eyesight, Tunnel Imaginative and prescient, Cataract, Glaucoma, and others.
- Cognitive Incapacity Mode: this mode gives totally different assistive choices to assist customers with cognitive impairments comparable to Dyslexia, Autism, CVA, and others, to deal with the important components of the web site extra simply.
- ADHD Pleasant Mode: this mode helps customers with ADHD and Neurodevelopmental problems 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 comparable to 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 have to be appropriate with it.
- Keyboard Navigation Profile (Motor-Impaired): this profile permits motor-impaired individuals to function the web site utilizing the keyboard Tab, Shift+Tab, and the Enter keys. Customers may use shortcuts comparable to “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (kinds), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to leap to particular components.
Further UI, design, and readability changes
- Font changes – customers, can improve and reduce its measurement, change its household (kind), alter the spacing, alignment, line peak, and extra.
- Coloration changes – customers can choose varied shade distinction profiles comparable to gentle, darkish, inverted, and monochrome. Moreover, customers can swap shade schemes of titles, texts, and backgrounds, with over seven totally different coloring choices.
- 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.
- Content material highlighting – customers can select to emphasise vital components comparable to hyperlinks and titles. They’ll additionally select to focus on targeted or hovered components solely.
- Audio muting – customers with listening to gadgets might expertise complications or different points because of computerized audio enjoying. This selection lets customers mute your entire web site immediately.
- 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.
- Further features – we offer customers the choice to vary cursor shade and measurement, use a printing mode, allow a digital keyboard, and lots of different features.
Browser and assistive expertise compatibility
We intention to help 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. Due to this fact, we’ve labored very onerous to have the ability to help 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 totally accessible, are within the strategy of changing into accessible, or are missing an satisfactory technological resolution to make them accessible. Nonetheless, we’re regularly enhancing our accessibility, including, updating and enhancing its choices and options, and growing and adopting new applied sciences. All that is meant to succeed in the optimum stage of accessibility, following technological developments. For any help, please attain out to