We strongly believe in making the web accessible to everyone irrespective of disability status, Hence the reason why we are committed to making our website as accessible as possible
Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!To achieve this, we strive to adhere to the World Wide Web Consortium’s(W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) which explain how to make web content accessible to people with disabilities. Following these guidelines helps us ensure that our website is accessible to everyone including people with visual and hearing impairment, cognitive disabilities, ADHD, etc.
We make use of several assistive technologies to enable persons with specific disabilities or needs to adjust Our website’s UI (user interface) and design to suit their personal needs. Such as adapting the website’s HTML to contain necessary attributes that will enable its ease of use for people with screen readers or for people who rely on keyboard shortcuts and so on.
Should you wish to contact us, please use the following email sales@myinsurancesavers.com
We would like to walk you through our accessibility features and also give you an overview of what they do.
Website Navigation Adjustment
We make use of ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) attributes in our website’s HTML to make our contents available to some users with disabilities, especially people who rely on screen readers and people who cannot use a mouse.
Below is a list of provisions we have made for our users to properly navigate our website.
Screen-reader optimization: we provided this functionality to adjusts our website’s HTML contents and make it compatible with popular screen readers, such as TalkBack, JAWS, and NVDA.
Inbuilt Text to Speech Engine: this feature is not limited to but targets our users who rely on screen readers but due to one reason or the other are not with any at the time of visiting our website. We try as much as we can to make sure everyone who visits our website is able to effortlessly find their way around our website.
Virtual Keyboard: This is not limited to but aims at users with low tone, muscle spasm or permanent injury to hands or fingers, users who are tactile defensive and do not like the ‘touch’ of a keyboard, or users with a combination of physical and sight impairment.
Navigation Keys: This feature adjusts the website’s HTML, makes the website easy to navigate by using the keyboard. Pressing the Tab key moves the user down the website, from one element to another based on hierarchy likewise pressing the Shift Tab key moves the user up the website. Buttons and links can be triggered using the Enter key when they receive focus using the Tab key.
Aside from all these, keyboard users can use shortcuts such as “M” to access Menus, “H” to access Headings, “F” to access Forms, “B” to access Buttons, and “G” for Graphics.
Website’s UI and Content Adjustment
We provide arrays of content adjustment features that enable our users to adapt our website’s content to their special needs.
Let us go through some of the notable features we have in the content adjustment section:
- Dyslexia-friendly and readable fonts – users can adjust the website’s fonts to make the content more readable as in the case of a user with vision impairment, or make use of the dyslexia-friendly font which makes people with dyslexia read better.
- Font adjustments – users can increase or decrease font size, adjust line-height, letter, and word spacing, also set text alignment to right, left, or center.
- Content scaling and text magnifier – this feature enables users to scale our website content, it is not limited to but will benefit more of our users with long or short-sightedness.
- Reading guide and read focus – this feature enhances users’ focus when going through our website’s content.
- Animations toggle – this feature enables users with epilepsy to stop all running animations controlled by the website such as CSS flashing transitions.
Other functionalities – below is a list of other functionalities in the same category:
- Mute sound
- Highlight link
- Highlight hover
- Highlight titles
- Highlight focus
- Big black cursor
- Big white cursor
Website’s UI and color adjustment
- Color adjustments – this feature enables users to adjust the website color contrast to light, dark or high, it can also be set to monochrome, high saturation, or low saturation, users can also choose to change the color of texts, titles, and backgrounds in a click of a button.
Website’s page structure
This feature aims at ease of navigating our website’s contents, it is categorized in three sections as follows:
- Headings – users can find all the website’s headings in this section, these heading are the ones created with h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, and h6 HTML tags, by clicking on any of the headings, users can easily skip to where the heading can be found on the web page
- Landmarks – landmarks consist of HTML elements created with a header, nav, main, section, article, aside and footer tags, by clicking on any of these, users can easily skip to where they can be found on the web page.
- Links – users can find all the website’s links in this section, by clicking on any of the links, users can easily skip to where the links can be found on the web page:
Advanced settings
- Epilepsy Safe Mode dampens color and removes blinks.
- Visually Impaired Mode improves the website’s visuals.
- Cognitive Disability Mode helps to focus on specific content.
- ADHD Friendly Mode reduces distractions and improves focus.
- Blind Users Mode (Screen-readers): allows using the site with your screen-reader.
- Inbuild screen reader: this option enables the user to navigate through the site with the website’s inbuilt screen reader.
Important notice
We are working on improving the accessibility of our website by adding or updating its accessibility options. However, some pages or sections may still not be fully accessible or are currently being made accessible. If you wish to contact us, please use the following email sales@myinsurancesavers.com for additional assistance. Thank you