Accessibility Assertion
www.capetown.journey
23 Might 2026
Compliance standing
We firmly consider that the web ought to be obtainable and accessible to anybody, and are dedicated to offering a web site that’s accessible to the widest potential viewers,
no matter circumstance and skill.
To meet this, we goal to stick as strictly as potential to the World Broad Net Consortium’s (W3C) Net Content material Accessibility Pointers 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 make 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 potential always. We make the most of an accessibility interface that enables 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 consistently. 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 possibly can attain out to the web site’s operators through the use of the next e mail
Display screen-reader and keyboard navigation
Our web site implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Wealthy Web Functions) method, alongside varied totally different behavioral adjustments, to make sure blind customers visiting with
screen-readers are in a position to 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 screen-Reader Profile to allow them to browse and function your web site successfully. Right here’s how our web site covers a number of the most essential screen-reader necessities,
alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Display screen-reader optimization: we run a background course of that learns the web site’s elements from prime 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 type labels;
descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, and many others.); validation steering for type inputs; ingredient roles comparable to buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups),
and others. Moreover, the background course of scans all the web site’s pictures and gives an correct and significant image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate textual content) tag
for pictures that aren’t described. It would additionally extract texts which can be embedded throughout the picture, utilizing an OCR (optical character recognition) know-how.
To activate screen-reader changes at any time, customers want solely to press the Alt+1 keyboard mixture. Display screen-reader customers additionally get automated bulletins to show the Display screen-reader mode on
as quickly as they enter the web site.
These changes are suitable with all standard display 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 contains 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 parts 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 parts of the positioning whereas navigating with the keyboard. The background course of additionally handles triggered popups by shifting the keyboard focus in the direction of them as quickly as they seem, and never enable the main focus drift outdoors it.
Customers also can use shortcuts comparable to “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (types), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to leap to particular parts.
Incapacity profiles supported in our web site
Epilepsy Protected Mode: this profile permits 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 comparable to Degrading Eyesight, Tunnel Imaginative and prescient, Cataract, Glaucoma, and others.
Cognitive Incapacity Mode: this mode gives totally different assistive choices to assist customers with cognitive impairments comparable to Dyslexia, Autism, CVA, and others, to give attention to the important parts of the web site extra simply.
ADHD Pleasant Mode: this mode helps customers with ADHD and Neurodevelopmental issues to learn, browse, and give attention to the primary web site parts extra simply whereas considerably lowering distractions.
Blindness Mode: this mode configures the web site to be suitable with screen-readers comparable 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 suitable with it.
Keyboard Navigation Profile (Motor-Impaired): this profile permits motor-impaired individuals to function the web site utilizing the keyboard Tab, Shift+Tab, and the Enter keys. Customers also can use shortcuts comparable to “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (types), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to leap to particular parts.
Extra UI, design, and readability changes
Font changes – customers, can enhance and reduce its measurement, change its household (sort), alter the spacing, alignment, line top, and extra.
Coloration changes – customers can choose varied shade distinction profiles comparable to mild, darkish, inverted, and monochrome. Moreover, customers can swap shade schemes of titles, texts, and backgrounds, with over seven totally different coloring choices.
Animations – particular person with epilepsy can cease all operating animations with the clicking of a button. Animations managed by the interface embody movies, GIFs, and CSS flashing transitions.
Content material highlighting – customers can select to emphasise essential parts comparable to hyperlinks and titles. They will additionally select to spotlight centered or hovered parts solely.
Audio muting – customers with listening to gadgets might expertise complications or different points as a result of automated audio enjoying. This selection lets customers mute your entire web site immediately.
Cognitive issues – we make the most of a search engine that’s linked to Wikipedia and Wiktionary, permitting folks with cognitive issues 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 lots of different capabilities.
Browser and assistive know-how compatibility
We goal to assist the widest array of browsers and assistive applied sciences as potential, so our customers can select the most effective becoming instruments for them, with as few limitations as potential. Due to this fact, we’ve labored very laborious to have the ability to assist all main programs 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 readers).
Notes, feedback, and suggestions
Regardless of our best possible 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 strategy of changing into accessible, or are missing an satisfactory 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
