Accessibility Statement

Accessibility Statement

We are committed to ensuring digital accessibility for people with disabilities. We continuously improve the user experience for everyone and regularly apply relevant accessibility standards and best practices.

State of compliance

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) They define the requirements for designers and developers to improve accessibility for people with disabilities. They define three levels of conformance: Level A, Level AA, and Level AAA.

We have installed an automatic accessibility tool that runs in the background. This tool uses AI and machine learning to correct accessibility deficiencies in the HTML code. It also provides an interface that allows visitors to manipulate their browsing experience. The complete set of tools is intended to help this site conform to accessibility standards as closely as possible. WCAG 2.1 Level AA .

Additional accessibility considerations

Although our goal is to achieve WCAG 2.1 Level AA compliance, we have also applied some AAA Level success criteria: Text images are used for decorative purposes only. Some WCAG 2.1 Level AA requirements are not included in the remediation process because they fall outside the scope of the website's source code, including video captions.

Measures taken by this website to comply with regulations

  • Complete website audit for WCAG 2.1 Level AA and page load correction. All page elements are scanned and compared to our accessibility standards library to ensure compliance. If a correction is needed, the element is tagged, and our AI correction tool makes the necessary, non-invasive corrections on the client side of the site.
  • Automatic recognition of images and links and correction of content that does not contain alternative or title text for users who need access to screen readers; descriptions are stored so that the user can adjust them and help our machine learning algorithms.
  • Quick access to search the Meriam website for word definitions and pronunciations.
  • Color blindness adjustments to improve color distinction for red-green color blindness (Deuteranomaly, Protanomaly, Protanopia, Deuteranopia), blue-yellow color blindness (Tritanopia, Tritanomaly), Other color blindness (Achromatopsia, Achromatomy)
  • Reset fonts to Arial or Implement a dyslexia-friendly font
  • Ability to highlight titles and links
  • Text expansion
  • Content, font, line height, line spacing scaling, and zoom
  • Content alignment including left, center, and right
  • Dark and light contrast modes and high contrast that increases the contrast ratio to 135%, and complete color inversion
  • Saturation settings including High (140% saturation), Low (90% saturation), Monochrome (0% saturation)
  • Complete control over the color of elements, including title, font and background color settings with safe color palettes to ensure an optimal contrast ratio of 4.5%.
  • Ability to stop motion (videos, animated graphics, web element transitions, etc.), hide all images, and mute sounds
  • A simple reading guide or a more elaborate page mask to help users focus on the page content
  • Highlight the element when hovering over or focusing on it to ensure that both keyboard and mouse users can orient themselves on the focused element.
  • Screen reader that reads the page content by highlighting it.
  • Full control of navigation with the keyboard
  • Added settings in navigation profiles to quickly deploy accessibility configurations for multiple types of users.

Compatibility with browsers and assistive technologies

We strive to be compatible with the following assistive technologies:

  • Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers), for both Windows and MAC users.

Technical specifications

The accessibility of this site depends on the following technologies to function with the particular combination of web browsers and any assistive technology or plugins installed on your computer:

  • HTML
  • WAI-ARIA
  • CSS
  • JavaScript

These technologies are based on compliance with the accessibility standards used.

Grades

While our primary goal is to make the entire site accessible to all users, it is possible that some pages may not have been discovered or do not currently have a satisfactory accessibility solution. We are committed to continuously improving the accessibility of this site to ensure it is accessible to everyone.