At Miki Blum Carpentry, we 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 audience, regardless of circumstances and ability. In order to realize this, we strive to adhere as strictly as possible to the guidelines for accessibility of content on the Internet according to the Israeli standard TI 5568 level AA. These guidelines explain how to make content accessible on the Internet to people with a wide range of disabilities. Compliance with these guidelines helps us ensure that the site is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor disabilities, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities and more.

 

This website is accessed according to these guidelines, and in addition uses various technologies designed to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We use an accessibility interface that allows people with a specific disability and without a bridging screen reader to adapt the site's user interface and design it for their personal needs.

 

Using a screen reader and keyboard navigation on our website

Our site implements the ARIA (Accessible Rich Web Applications) feature technique, along with various behavior changes, to ensure that blind users visiting our site using screen readers can read, understand and enjoy the site's functions. Once a user with a screen reader enters the site, they can enter the screen reader profile to browse and operate the site efficiently. This is how our site covers some of the most important requirements of screen readers:

 

• 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 website images and provides an accurate and meaningful description based on image object-identification as an ALT tag (alternative text) 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 key combination Alt + 1. Screen reader users also receive automatic notifications to enable screen reader mode as soon as they enter the site. These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers including JAWS and NVDA.
   

• Optimizing keyboard navigation: the user has the ability to navigate the site using the Tab and Shit + Tab keys, activate and scroll with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, click on links with the Enter key, navigate between radio elements and checkboxes with the arrow keys, and fill them with the key space or enter key. In addition, keyboard users will find menus for quick navigation and content skipping, available at any time on the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered jumps by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, not allowing focus to be focused out of it. Users can also use shortcuts such as "M" (menus), "H" (headers), "F" (forms) , "B" (buttons) and "G" (graphics) to jump to specific elements.​

 

In addition, the site uses a technological application of the ENABLE company and runs in the background. The role of this component is to optimize the level of accessibility of our website. This application adapts the functionality and behavior of the site to screen readers/devices used by the blind users and keyboard functions used by people with motor disabilities with or without the use of any screen reader.

Browser compatibility and technology support

We aim to support as wide a range of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so that our users can choose the tools that work best for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all the 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), both for Windows and MAC users.

 

- There is no public reception in our office.

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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 adequate technological solution to make them accessible. And yet, we are constantly improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is designed 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 the changing legal requirements.

If you've found a bug, if you're having trouble using any aspect of the site or if you have ideas for improvement, we'd love to hear from you. You can contact us at the contact us page.