Accessibility Statement
Compliance status
We firmly believe that the internet should be available and accessible to anyone
and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the broadest possible audience,
regardless of ability.
To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C)
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to
make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those
guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to blind people, people with motor
impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at
all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to
adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes
its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts its
functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by blind users, and for keyboard functions used
by individuals with motor impairments.
If you wish to contact the website’s owner please use the following email: hello@apparis.com
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 Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website
covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements:
1. Screen-reader optimization: we run a process that learns the website’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.
2. Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts 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 fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.
Additionally, keyboard users will find content-skip menus available at any time by clicking Alt+2,
or as the first 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 specific elements.
Disability profiles supported on our website
1. Epilepsy Safe Profile: this profile enables people with epilepsy to safely use the website by eliminating the
risk of seizures resulting from flashing or blinking animations and risky color combinations.
2. Vision Impaired Profile: this profile adjusts the website so that it is accessible to the majority of
visual impairments such as Degrading Eyesight, Tunnel Vision, Cataract, Glaucoma, and others.
3. Cognitive Disability Profile: this profile 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.
4. ADHD Friendly Profile: this profile significantly reduces distractions and noise to
help people with ADHD, and Neurodevelopmental disorders browse, read, and focus on the essential
elements more easily.
5. Blind Users Profile (Screen-readers): this profile 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.
6. Keyboard Navigation
Profile (Motor-Impaired): this profile 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 specific elements.
Additional UI, design, and readability adjustments
Font adjustments – users can increase and
decrease its size, change its family (type), adjust the spacing, alignment, line height, and more.
Color adjustments – users can select various color contrast profiles such as light, dark, inverted,
and monochrome. Additionally, users can swap color schemes of titles, texts, and backgrounds with
over seven different coloring options.
Animations – epileptic users 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 emphasize essential elements such
as links and titles. They can also choose to highlight focused or hovered elements only.
Audio
muting – users with hearing devices may experience headaches or other issues due to automatic audio
playing. This option lets users mute the entire website instantly.
Cognitive Disorders– we utilize
a search engine linked to Wikipedia and Wiktionary, allowing people with cognitive disorders to
decipher meanings of phrases, initials, slang, and others.
Additional Functions – we allow users to
change cursor color and size, 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 fitting 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.
Notes, comments and feedback
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: hello@apparis.com