We at Design That Makes Waves believe that the Internet should be available and accessible to everyone, and our desire is to provide a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of circumstance or ability. To achieve this, we strive to adhere as strictly as possible to the accessibility guidelines for content on the Internet according to the Israeli standard TI 5568 at level AA. These guidelines explain how to make content on the Internet accessible to people with a wide range of disabilities. Adhering to these guidelines helps us ensure that the site is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor disabilities, visual impairments, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This site is accessible according to these guidelines, and also uses various technologies designed to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We use an accessibility interface that allows people with specific disabilities and without a bridging screen reader to adapt the user interface of the site and design it to their personal needs.
In addition, the site uses a technological application from AccessiBe, an AI-based company that runs in the background. The role of this component is to continuously optimize the accessibility level of our site. This application adapts the functionality and behavior of the site to screen readers used by blind users and adds Our website has keyboard shortcuts that are used by people with motor impairments and/or without the use of any screen reader.
Using a screen reader and keyboard navigation on our website
Our website implements the ARIA (Accessible Rich Web Applications) feature technique, along with various behavioral modifications, to ensure that blind users visiting with screen readers can read, understand, and enjoy the website’s functions. Once a user with a screen reader enters the website, they can log in to the screen reader profile to navigate and operate the website effectively. Thus, our website covers some of the most important requirements of screen readers such as (but not limited to*):
Screen reader optimization: We provide screen readers with meaningful data using the ARIA feature set. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidelines for form inputs; roles of elements such as buttons, menus, Modal dialogs (pop-ups) and others. In addition, the background process scans all images on the site and provides an accurate and meaningful description based on Image Object Recognition as an ALT (alternative text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract text embedded in the image, using OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To enable screen reader adaptations at any time, users only need to press the Alt + 1 key combination. Screen reader users also receive automatic notifications to enable screen reader mode as soon as they enter the site. These adaptations are compatible with all popular screen readers including JAWS and NVDA. Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adapts the site’s HTML and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the site easy to navigate using the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the site using the Tab and Shift + Tab keys, open and navigate menus with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, fill them in using the spacebar or Enter key. In addition, keyboard users will find menus for quick navigation and skipping content, available at any time by pressing Alt + 1, or navigate to the first elements on the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles jumps that are triggered by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and does not allow focus to be shifted away from it. Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
Accessibility profiles supported on our site
Epilepsy Safe Profile: This profile allows people with epilepsy to use the site safely by eliminating the risk of seizures caused by flashing or blinking animations and dangerous color combinations.
Visually Impaired Profile: Profile It adapts the website to be accessible to most visual impairments such as low vision, tunnel vision, cataracts, glaucoma and others.
Cognitive Disability Profile: This profile provides various assistive features that help users with cognitive disabilities such as autism, dyslexia, CVA and others, focus on the essential elements more easily.
ADHD Friendly Profile: This profile significantly reduces distractions and noises, to help people with ADHD and neurological disorders browse, read and focus on the most essential elements easily.
Blind User Profile (Screen Readers): This profile adapts 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 website is compatible with it.
Keyboard Navigation Profile (Reduced Impaired): This profile allows people with reduced mobility to operate the website using the keyboard, Shift + Tab, and Enter keys. Users can also use Shortcuts like “M” (Menus), “H” (Headings), “F”
User Interface, Design and Readability Adjustments available on our website
Font Adjustments – Users can increase and decrease its size, change its family (type), adjust spacing, alignment, line height and more.
Color Adjustments – Users can choose different color contrast profiles such as light, dark, inverted and black and white. Additionally, users can change the color schemes of headings, texts and backgrounds, with over 7 different coloring options.
Animations – Users with epilepsy can stop all running animations with the click of a button. Animations controlled by the interface include videos, GIFs and CSS flashing transitions.
Content Highlighting – Users can choose to highlight important elements such as links and headings. They can also choose to highlight focused or hovered elements only.
Audio Mute – This option allows users to mute the entire site in a Instant.
Cognitive Impairments – We use a search engine linked to Wikipedia and Wiktionary, allowing people with cognitive impairments to decipher the meanings of phrases, acronyms, slang, and more.
Additional Features – We provide users with the ability to change the color and cursor, use print mode, enable a virtual keyboard, and many other features.
Browser Compatibility and Technology Support
We strive to support as wide a range of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so that our users can choose the tools that best suit them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that account for over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera, and Microsoft Edge, JAWS, and NVDA (screen readers), for both Windows and MAC users.
Accessibility arrangements at our office address
Our office, located at: Damari Shoshana 4, Apartment 1, is accessible and accessible to everyone, including wheelchair access.
Comments, clarifications and feedback:
Despite our best efforts to allow everyone to adapt the site to their needs, there may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of being made accessible or lack an appropriate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are constantly improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features and developing and adopting new technologies. All of this is intended to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological progress.
And all this for you and for your sake and of course, in accordance with changing legal requirements.
If you find a problem, if you have difficulty using any aspect of the site or if you have ideas for improvement, we would love to hear from you. You can contact us by phone at 050-9539203 during our business hours, by email at info@galimdesign.com or by using the form on the Contact Us page.
Wishing you a pleasant, productive and useful browsing experience that is always accessible to you.
Galim Shem Tov | CEO of Design That Makes Waves
