Accessibility Statement

yaolawgroup.com || November 23, 2020

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 elektra@yaolawgroup.com

Screen-Reader and Keyboard Navigation

Our website incorporates the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, along with various behavioral changes, to ensure that blind users, who use screen-readers, can easily read, understand, and fully utilize the website’s features. When a user with a screen-reader enters our site, they are promptly prompted to activate the Screen-Reader Profile, allowing them to efficiently browse and interact with the site. Here’s how our website addresses some of the most critical screen-reader requirements:

1.) Screen-Reader Optimization: We run a comprehensive process that thoroughly understands the website’s components from top to bottom, ensuring ongoing compliance even during updates. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we supply accurate form labels, descriptions for actionable icons (such as social media icons, search icons, cart icons), validation guidance for form inputs, and appropriate element roles like buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others.

Additionally, our background process scans all of the website’s images, providing accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based descriptions in ALT (alternate text) tags for images that lack descriptions. It also extracts text embedded within images using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology. To enable screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also receive automatic announcements to activate Screen-Reader mode 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: Our background process also enhances the website’s HTML and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website fully accessible via keyboard navigation. This includes the ability to navigate the site 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 can easily access content-skip menus at any time by pressing Alt+2, or as the first element of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also ensures that the keyboard focus is directed towards triggered popups as soon as they appear, preventing the focus from straying outside.

Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” for menus, “H” for headings, “F” for forms, “B” for buttons, and “G” for graphics to quickly jump to specific elements.

Disability Profiles Supported on Our Website

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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

1. Font Adjustments – Users can increase and decrease its size, change its family (type), adjust the spacing, alignment, line height, and more.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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
• Microsoft Edge
• JAWS (screen reader)
• NVDA (screen reader)

We support both Windows and MAC users to ensure broad accessibility.

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: elektra@yaolawgroup.com