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 2.2 (WCAG 2.2) 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 impairments, 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) to their personal needs.

Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and constantly optimizes its accessibility level. This application remediates the website's HTML and adapts its functionality and behavior for screen readers used by blind users and for keyboard navigation used by individuals with motor impairments.

If you wish to contact the website's owner, please email contact@naturespathsupport.com.

Screen-reader and keyboard navigation

Our website implements ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications), 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 our site, they receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate our 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 ARIA attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons, such as social media, search, and cart icons; validation guidance for form inputs; and element roles such as buttons, menus, and modal dialogs (popups).

    Additionally, the background process scans all of the website's images. It provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as alternative text for images that are not described. It also extracts text embedded within images using OCR (optical character recognition) technology.

    To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also receive automatic announcements to turn on 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: The background process also adjusts the website's HTML and adds various behaviors using JavaScript to make the website operable by 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 select them with the Spacebar or Enter key.

    Additionally, keyboard users will find content-skip menus available at any time by pressing Alt+2 or as the first element of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving keyboard focus to them as soon as they appear and preventing focus from moving outside them.

    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

  • 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 people with visual impairments, such as declining eyesight, tunnel vision, cataracts, 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, focus on 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 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 device, and this site is compatible with it.
  • Keyboard Navigation Profile (Motor Impairments): This profile enables persons with motor impairments to operate the website using the Tab, Shift+Tab, and 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 font size, change the font family, and adjust 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 change the color schemes of titles, text, and backgrounds using more than seven different coloring options.
  3. Animations: Users with epilepsy 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 only focused or hovered elements.
  5. Audio muting: Users with hearing devices may experience headaches or other issues due to automatically playing audio. 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 the meanings of phrases, initials, slang, and more.
  7. Additional functions: We allow users to change cursor color and size, use a printing mode, enable a virtual keyboard, and use 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 tools that best fit their needs, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard 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, as well as screen readers such as JAWS and NVDA. We aim to support users on both Windows and macOS with compatible browsers and assistive technologies.

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 lack an adequate technological solution to make them accessible.

Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding and updating options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All of this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility as technology advances.

If you wish to contact the website's owner, please email contact@naturespathsupport.com.