Everyone should be able to use your website regardless of their abilities!
ORC Webhosting's solutions help companies to optimize the accessibility of their websites. This enables them to take an inclusive approach to meet the requirements of the European Accessibility Act (EAA) and the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).
The European Accessibility Act (EAA) comes into force in June 2025 and sets new standards for the Accessibility throughout Europe. In Germany, the EAA is regulated by the Accessibility Reinforcement Act (BFSG) implemented. Even though Switzerland is not part of the European Union, it is crucial for companies and website operators to understand and implement the new regulations. Because: Anyone offering products and services in the EU must make them accessible.
The European Accessibility Act (EAA) is a law passed by the EU in April 2019 to require accessibility for digital products and services.
EN 301549 is a policy document of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), the EU agency that regulates the digital sector. EN 301549 defines official standards for accessibility on the Internet.
It is important to note that European web accessibility policy has taken shape over the course of a long, often complicated process. In order for businesses to fully understand European accessibility compliance, some background information is required.
Around 20 percent of the total world population live with a disability. There are laws in place to prevent discrimination and ensure that people with disabilities have equal access to content and services. Web accessibility ensures that all users can access and interact with your website, app and digital assets.
In the USA, companies and organizations have had to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) which stipulates barrier-free websites.
The new EU law, known as the European Accessibility Act (EAA), comes into force in June 2025 and also stipulates that websites must be accessible.
This is achieved through compliance with guidelines such as the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) achieved. The guidelines ensure that websites are perceivable, operable, understandable and robust for people with disabilities.
ORC Webhosting's accessWidget is transforming web accessibility, simplifying and streamlining the process of accessibility and compliance using AI, machine learning and computer vision.
The accessibility profiles bundle common accessibility combinations that deal with the characteristics of a specific disability. All the user has to do is select the right one for them.
ORC's accessWidget provides accessibility to websites around the world, in many different laws and regulations (EAA/EN301549/BFSG, WCAG, ADA, Section 508, AODA, ACA, UK Regulations, HB1110, Unruh Act, IS5568) and in 20 languages.
Our accessWidget uses two applications that work together to fix your website. The accessibility interface is responsible for the user interface and design-related adjustments, while the AI-powered process handles the complex requirements - optimization for screen readers and keyboard navigation.
This profile allows people with epilepsy to use the website safely by eliminating the risk of seizures caused by flashing or blinking animations and risky color combinations.
This profile customizes the website to be accessible for the majority of visual impairments such as Degrading Sight, Tunnel Vision, Cataract, Glaucoma and others.
This profile significantly reduces distractions and noise to help people with ADHD and neurodevelopmental disorders browse, read and focus on the essential elements of the website more easily.
This profile offers various assistive features to help users with cognitive disabilities such as autism, dyslexia, CVA and others to focus more easily on the essential elements of the website.
This profile allows people 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 pages.
This profile adapts the website so that it is compatible with screen readers such as JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver and TalkBack. A screen reader is software that is installed on the blind user's computer and smartphone, and websites should ensure compatibility with it.
accessiBe enables website owners to serve users with a variety of disabilities, all in compliance with WCAG 2.1 and global legislation
Blind users use screen readers to verbally dictate what is on the screen. Most websites lack alternative text for images and ARIA attributes for content and behavioral adaptations that screen readers rely on.
Our accessWidget uses machine learning to scan, analyze and interpret every element on the page in the same way that visually impaired users do. It then uses ARIA attributes and various behavioral adaptations to provide full context to screen readers. This allows blind users to accurately navigate through websites.
When it comes to websites, physical and motor impairments are defined by the inability to use a mouse. Fortunately, a keyboard can do everything a mouse can do and more.
Unfortunately, most websites are not optimized for keyboard navigation, so people with motor impairments are excluded from certain website elements.
The accessWidget makes websites completely navigable via the keyboard. This is achieved with our contextual understanding AI engine, which makes the necessary adjustments throughout the website's code. People with motor impairments can use the buttons to do everything from closing popups and forms to opening menus.
People with cognitive impairments have certain limitations in mental functioning that can affect the way website content is perceived and understood. For example, slang and abbreviations can be very confusing for people with cognitive disabilities.
Without the right context or orientation adjustments, the context can be misunderstood and lead to wrong actions.
To help people with cognitive disabilities get the right context of a website's content and elements, the accessibility interface of our accessWidget includes an integrated dictionary for quick definitions and references.
The internet is full of flashing and blinking animations and GIFs that are dangerous for people with photosensitive epilepsy. Many users will avoid sites and content for fear of triggering a seizure.
Within the accessibility interface, epileptic users can easily find a "Seizure Safe" profile that simultaneously freezes any flashing GIFs, animations, videos or patterns that might trigger people with photosensitive epilepsy. Customization is also available for individual modifications.
Black Friday and other banner ads are designed to draw our attention to a sale or message. For epilepsy, this is a health risk.
Websites come in many shades, colors and sizes. It can be difficult for people with visual impairments to see the content of a website if the color combinations or font size or type are not chosen correctly. Common visual impairments are blurred vision, color blindness and glaucoma.
With our accessibility interface, users can customize the design and user interface of the website to their specific needs. Adjustments include content adjustments such as scaling, size and spacing of text, color adjustments such as saturation and contrast, and alignment adjustments such as enlarged cursor and emphasized titles.
Website owners and marketers often prefer to deliver visuals in the form of videos. Although this is a great form of engagement, hearing impaired users may not understand what the video is about unless it contains subtitles.
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Absolutely! accessWidget is used by over a million users with disabilities on hundreds of thousands of websites every month!
accessWidget meets WCAG 2.1 Level AA requirements and covers a wide range of disability categories, including vision, hearing, motor, cognition and more.
accessWidget uses two AI engines. The first, "Computer Vision", is used to analyze and describe images, while the other, "Contextual Understanding", is used to learn the purpose and functionality of elements.
AccessWidget's AI-powered process takes up to 48 hours from initial installation. The longer AccessWidget is on your website, the more accurate it is and the faster it can intercept content.
There are dozens of free web accessibility tools that cover about 20% of the requirements. accessWidget is the leading accessibility solution powered by AI and backed by a team of hundreds of people and leading venture companies.
Absolutely! accessWidget operates on hundreds of thousands of websites on five different continents under many different laws. accessWidget is a trusted solution from industry-leading organizations.
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