Accessibility Statement

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 accessibility statement, 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 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 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, and 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 drmowlavi@gmail.com to discuss the accessibility statement.

Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, 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 the site, they receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate the site. The site covers these screen-reader requirements:

Screen-reader optimization

A background process learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to keep compliance as the website is updated. Screen readers receive meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes: accurate form labels, descriptions for actionable icons, validation guidance for form inputs, and element roles such as buttons, menus, and modal dialogues. The process also scans images and provides an alternate-text description for images that are not described, including text read from an image with optical character recognition. To turn on screen-reader adjustments, users press Alt+1. Screen-reader users also get an announcement to turn Screen-reader mode on when they enter the website. These adjustments are compatible with JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver, and TalkBack.

Keyboard navigation optimization

The same process adjusts the website’s HTML and adds behavior so the website can be operated by the keyboard. That includes navigating with Tab and Shift+Tab, operating dropdowns with the arrow keys, closing them with Esc, triggering buttons and links with Enter, moving between radio and checkbox elements with the arrow keys, and filling them in with the Spacebar or Enter key. Keyboard users can open a content-skip menu with Alt+2, or reach it as the first element of the site. When a popup opens, keyboard focus moves to it and does not drift outside. Shortcuts jump to specific elements: “M” for menus, “H” for headings, “F” for forms, “B” for buttons, and “G” for graphics.

• Epilepsy Safe Profile. This profile enables people with epilepsy to use the website by eliminating the risk of seizures that can result 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, and glaucoma.
• Cognitive Disability Profile. This profile provides assistive features to help users with cognitive disabilities such as autism, dyslexia, and CVA focus on the essential elements more easily.
• ADHD Friendly Profile. This profile 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 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.

• Font adjustments. Users can increase and decrease size, change the family, and adjust spacing, alignment, line height, and more.
• Color adjustments. Users can select contrast profiles such as light, dark, inverted, and monochrome, and can swap color schemes of titles, texts, and backgrounds.
• Animations. Epileptic users can stop running animations, including videos, GIFs, and CSS flashing transitions.
• Content highlighting. Users can emphasize links and titles, or highlight only the focused or hovered element.
• Audio muting. Users with hearing devices can mute the website so automatic audio does not play.
• Cognitive disorders. A dictionary lookup helps people decipher the meanings of phrases, initials, and slang.
• Additional functions. Users can change cursor color and size, use a printing mode, and enable a virtual keyboard.

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. We have worked to support the major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share, including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera, and Microsoft Edge, and the screen readers JAWS and NVDA, both for Windows and Mac users.

Despite our 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. We are continually improving accessibility, adding, updating, and improving options and features, and adopting new technologies. If you wish to contact the website’s owner about this accessibility statement, please use drmowlavi@gmail.com.