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Accessibility Statement

Physical accessibility

The Astrophysical Research Center (ARCO) can be found on the 2nd floor of the Academia Building, in the Open University campus, Ra’anana (see CONTACT for details).

 

The ARCO seminar room and researchers’ offices are accessible to people with disabilities. Disabled access, accessible parking slots, accessible toilets, and elevators are available to people with disabilities, with the intention of allowing accessibility in all the activities of ARCO in equality with the other researchers and participants. Accessibility is according to the Law of Equal Rights for Persons with Disabilities, 1998, and the regulations based on it.

 

Website accessibility

The website of ARCO is an accessible website that allows people with different abilities to consume its contents. The site provides a semantic structure for assistive technologies and support for the accepted usage pattern for keyboard operation. In order to get the best browsing experience with screen reader software, we recommend using NVDA software.

How does accessibility work on the website?

This website is powered by an accessibility plugin. The plugin allows the website to adhere to the guidelines for content accessibility on the Internet. The plugin is subject to the guidelines of the Israeli standard (WCAG 2.0).

The site has an accessibility menu. When clicking on the menu, it will be possible to open the accessibility buttons. After selecting a topic in the menu, wait for the page to load. The plugin works in all browsers.

Accessibility options in the menu:

  1. An adjustment button and site tags for assistive devices and technologies for disabled people.
  2. A button to enable navigation using the keyboard keys between the links on the site.
  3. A button to disable the flashing and/or moving elements on the screen.
  4. Black and white chrome mono mode enable button for the color blind.
  5. Sepia button (brown shade).
  6. High contrast change button.
  7. Black and yellow button.
  8. Color inversion button.
  9. A button that clearly highlights all the title tags that appear on the site.
  10. A button that clearly highlights all the links that appear on the site.
  11. A button that displays the alternative description of images on the website by the mouse.
  12. A button that displays a permanent description of the photos on the site.
  13. Button to cancel the use of a legible font.
  14. Button to increase the font size on the site
  15. The button to reduce the font size on the site.
  16. Button to increase the entire display to about 200%.
  17. Button to reduce the entire display to about 70%.
  18. Mouse cursor increase button.
  19. Button to increase the mouse pointer and change its color to black.
  20. Website reading status button.
  21. Button showing the accessibility statement.
  22. Reset button that cancels accessibility.
  23. Send accessibility feedback button.
  24. Button to change the language of the bar and the accessibility statement accordingly.
  25. Accessibility statement.

 

The accessibility bar has 2 types of magnification, but if you want to enlarge the letters even more, you can use the following keyboard functions:

 

  1. The Esc key will open and close the accessibility bar.
  2. The Ctrl + key will increase the text on the site.
  3. Ctrl key – will reduce the text on the website.
  4. The Ctrl 0 key will return the site to its original size.
  5. Space key (SPACE) will take the site down.
  6. The F11 key will enlarge the screen to full size – another press will reduce it back.

 

Accessibility contact person

Ms. Iris Natan is the contact person of ARCO for any accessibility issues. You are welcome to contact her for general or personal accessibility issues by phone: (+972)9-7782007 or by email: irisnat@openu.ac.il

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