Accessibility Assertion
- www.capetown.journey
- 6 Could 2024
Compliance standing
We firmly consider that the web ought to be obtainable and accessible to anybody, and are dedicated to offering an internet site that’s accessible to the widest attainable viewers,
no matter circumstance and talent.
To meet this, we intention to stick as strictly as attainable to the World Extensive Internet Consortium’s (W3C) Internet Content material Accessibility Tips 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) on the AA stage.
These pointers clarify easy methods to make net content material accessible to individuals with a wide selection of disabilities. Complying with these pointers helps us be certain 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 attainable always. We make the most of an accessibility interface that enables individuals with particular
disabilities to regulate the web site’s UI (consumer 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 stage continuously. This software remediates the web site’s HTML,
adapts Its performance and habits 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-reader and keyboard navigation
Our web site implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Wealthy Web Functions) approach, alongside numerous completely different behavioral adjustments, 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 web site, they instantly obtain
a immediate to enter the Display-Reader Profile to allow them to browse and function your web site successfully. Right here’s how our web site covers a number of the most necessary 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 parts from high 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 kind labels;
descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, and so forth.); validation steerage for kind inputs; ingredient roles reminiscent of 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 should additionally extract texts which are embedded throughout 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 suitable with all well-liked display 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 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 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, obtainable 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 the direction of them as quickly as they seem, and never permit the main target drift exterior it.
Customers may also use shortcuts reminiscent of “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (kinds), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to leap to particular parts.
Incapacity profiles supported in our web site
- Epilepsy Secure Mode: this profile allows individuals 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 shade combos.
- Visually Impaired Mode: this mode adjusts the web site for the comfort of customers with visible impairments reminiscent of Degrading Eyesight, Tunnel Imaginative and prescient, Cataract, Glaucoma, and others.
- Cognitive Incapacity Mode: this mode gives completely different assistive choices to assist customers with cognitive impairments reminiscent of Dyslexia, Autism, CVA, and others, to give attention to 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 give attention to 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 reminiscent of 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 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 also use shortcuts reminiscent of “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (kinds), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to leap to particular parts.
Further UI, design, and readability changes
- Font changes – customers, can enhance and reduce its measurement, change its household (kind), alter the spacing, alignment, line top, and extra.
- Coloration changes – customers can choose numerous shade distinction profiles reminiscent of gentle, darkish, inverted, and monochrome. Moreover, customers can swap shade schemes of titles, texts, and backgrounds, with over seven completely different coloring choices.
- Animations – individual with epilepsy can cease all working animations with the clicking of a button. Animations managed by the interface embody movies, GIFs, and CSS flashing transitions.
- Content material highlighting – customers can select to emphasise necessary parts reminiscent of hyperlinks and titles. They’ll additionally select to spotlight targeted or hovered parts solely.
- Audio muting – customers with listening to gadgets could expertise complications or different points on account of computerized audio taking part in. This feature 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 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 attainable, so our customers can select the most effective becoming instruments for them, with as few limitations as attainable. Due to this fact, we’ve got labored very arduous 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
Regardless of our best 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 ample technological answer to make them accessible. Nonetheless, we’re frequently 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 stage of accessibility, following technological developments. For any help, please attain out to