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 widest possible audience, regardless of circumstance and
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 all people: 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
advertising@abcwarehouse.com
Screen-reader and keyboard navigation
Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet
Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to
ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to 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, alongside console
screenshots of code examples:
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Screen-reader
optimization: we run a background 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 and 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 that are
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
all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
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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
quick navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking
Alt+1, 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, and not allow the focus
to drift outside of it.
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
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Epilepsy Safe
Profile: this profile enables people with epilepsy to
use the website safely by eliminating the risk of seizures that result from
flashing or blinking animations and risky color combinations.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Font adjustments – users
can increase and decrease its size, change its family (type), adjust the
spacing, alignment, line height, and more.
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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 7 different coloring options.
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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.
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Content highlighting – users can choose to emphasize important
elements such as links and titles. They can also choose to highlight focused
or hovered elements only.
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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.
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Cognitive disorders – we utilize a search engine that is linked to
Wikipedia and Wiktionary, allowing people with cognitive disorders to
decipher meanings of phrases, initials, slang, and others.
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Additional functions – we
provide users the option 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 the widest array of 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 for 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, and 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
webmaster@us-appliance.com