Accessibility Assertion
www.capetown.journey
2 June 2026
Compliance standing
We firmly imagine that the web must be obtainable and accessible to anybody, and are dedicated to offering a web site that’s accessible to the widest doable viewers,
no matter circumstance and skill.
To satisfy this, we goal to stick as strictly as doable to the World Large Net Consortium’s (W3C) Net Content material Accessibility Tips 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) on the AA degree.
These tips clarify the best way to make net content material accessible to folks with a wide selection of disabilities. Complying with these tips helps us be sure that the web site is accessible
to all folks: blind folks, folks with motor impairments, visible impairment, cognitive disabilities, and extra.
This web site makes use of varied applied sciences that should make it as accessible as doable always. We make the most of an accessibility interface that permits individuals with particular
disabilities to regulate the web site’s UI (consumer interface) and design it to their private wants.
Moreover, the web site makes use of an AI-based utility that runs within the background and optimizes its accessibility degree continuously. This utility remediates the web site’s HTML,
adapts Its performance and habits for screen-readers utilized by the blind customers, and for keyboard capabilities utilized by people with motor impairments.
In case you’ve discovered a malfunction or have concepts for enchancment, we’ll be joyful to listen to from you. You’ll be able to attain out to the web site’s operators by utilizing the next e mail
Display-reader and keyboard navigation
Our web site implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Wealthy Web Functions) method, alongside varied completely different behavioral modifications, to make sure blind customers visiting with
screen-readers are capable of learn, comprehend, and benefit from the web site’s capabilities. As quickly as a consumer with a screen-reader enters your web site, they instantly obtain
a immediate to enter the Display-Reader Profile to allow them to browse and function your web site successfully. Right here’s how our web site covers a few of the most necessary screen-reader necessities,
alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Display-reader optimization: we run a background course of that learns the web site’s elements from high to backside, to make sure ongoing compliance even when updating the web site.
On this course of, we offer screen-readers with significant knowledge utilizing the ARIA set of attributes. For instance, we offer correct kind labels;
descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, and so forth.); validation steering for kind inputs; ingredient roles equivalent to buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups),
and others. Moreover, the background course of scans all the web site’s photographs and offers an correct and significant image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate textual content) tag
for photographs that aren’t described. It’s going to additionally extract texts which are embedded inside the picture, utilizing an OCR (optical character recognition) expertise.
To activate screen-reader changes at any time, customers want solely to press the Alt+1 keyboard mixture. Display-reader customers additionally get computerized bulletins to show the Display-reader mode on
as quickly as they enter the web site.
These changes are appropriate with all fashionable display screen readers, together with JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background course of additionally adjusts the web site’s HTML, and provides varied behaviors utilizing JavaScript code to make the web site operable by the keyboard. This consists of the flexibility to navigate the web site utilizing the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, function dropdowns with the arrow keys, shut them with Esc, set off buttons and hyperlinks utilizing the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox components utilizing the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Moreover, keyboard customers will discover quick-navigation and content-skip menus, obtainable at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the primary components of the location whereas navigating with the keyboard. The background course of additionally handles triggered popups by transferring the keyboard focus in direction of them as quickly as they seem, and never permit the main target drift outdoors it.
Customers can even use shortcuts equivalent to “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (varieties), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to leap to particular components.
Incapacity profiles supported in our web site
Epilepsy Protected Mode: this profile allows folks with epilepsy to make use of the web site safely by eliminating the chance of seizures that outcome from flashing or blinking animations and dangerous shade mixtures.
Visually Impaired Mode: this mode adjusts the web site for the comfort of customers with visible impairments equivalent to Degrading Eyesight, Tunnel Imaginative and prescient, Cataract, Glaucoma, and others.
Cognitive Incapacity Mode: this mode offers completely different assistive choices to assist customers with cognitive impairments equivalent to Dyslexia, Autism, CVA, and others, to deal with the important components of the web site extra simply.
ADHD Pleasant Mode: this mode helps customers with ADHD and Neurodevelopmental problems to learn, browse, and deal with the principle web site components extra simply whereas considerably decreasing distractions.
Blindness Mode: this mode configures the web site to be appropriate with screen-readers equivalent to JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver, and TalkBack. A screen-reader is software program for blind customers that’s put in on a pc and smartphone, and web sites have to be appropriate with it.
Keyboard Navigation Profile (Motor-Impaired): this profile allows motor-impaired individuals to function the web site utilizing the keyboard Tab, Shift+Tab, and the Enter keys. Customers can even use shortcuts equivalent to “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (varieties), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to leap to particular components.
Extra UI, design, and readability changes
Font changes – customers, can enhance and reduce its measurement, change its household (kind), modify the spacing, alignment, line peak, and extra.
Shade changes – customers can choose varied shade distinction profiles equivalent to gentle, darkish, inverted, and monochrome. Moreover, customers can swap shade schemes of titles, texts, and backgrounds, with over seven completely different coloring choices.
Animations – particular person with epilepsy can cease all working animations with the press of a button. Animations managed by the interface embody movies, GIFs, and CSS flashing transitions.
Content material highlighting – customers can select to emphasise necessary components equivalent to hyperlinks and titles. They’ll additionally select to spotlight centered or hovered components solely.
Audio muting – customers with listening to units might expertise complications or different points as a result of computerized audio taking part in. This selection lets customers mute the complete web site immediately.
Cognitive problems – we make the most of a search engine that’s linked to Wikipedia and Wiktionary, permitting folks with cognitive problems to decipher meanings of phrases, initials, slang, and others.
Extra capabilities – we offer customers the choice to alter cursor shade and measurement, use a printing mode, allow a digital keyboard, and plenty of different capabilities.
Browser and assistive expertise compatibility
We goal to assist the widest array of browsers and assistive applied sciences as doable, so our customers can select the very best becoming instruments for them, with as few limitations as doable. Subsequently, we’ve labored very arduous to have the ability to assist all main techniques that comprise over 95% of the consumer market share together with Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (display screen readers).
Notes, feedback, and suggestions
Regardless of our perfect efforts to permit anyone to regulate the web site to their wants. There should still be pages or sections that aren’t totally accessible, are within the means of changing into accessible, or are missing an ample technological resolution to make them accessible. Nonetheless, we’re regularly bettering our accessibility, including, updating and bettering its choices and options, and growing and adopting new applied sciences. All that is meant to achieve the optimum degree of accessibility, following technological developments. For any help, please attain out to
