THE FULL ACCESSIBILITY SUITE
The United Kingdom's most advanced accessibility interface, aCt, provides robust customisation options that enable users to personalise the website's design and user interface to their individual needs or disability without affecting other site visitors.
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A PERSONALIZED ACCESSIBILITY EXPERIENCE
The aCt interface is designed to help website owners make their sites more accessible to people with different disabilities. Users can choose a disability profile like "Vision Impaired Profile" and activate all relevant adjustments simultaneously. Alternatively, or in addition to the profiles, users can enable precise adjustments like increasing font sizes, changing colour contrasts, stopping animations, and more.
GOING BEYOND THE REQUIREMENTS
The interface offers many features which provide a comprehensive accessibility experience for your users.
For Epilepsy
Instantly freeze all animations, gifs, and flashing images.
For Vision Impairments
Enhance the content's foreground and background colour contrasts
For Cognitive Disorders
Puts a webpage in a text-only, reading-focused mode
For Motor Impairements
Enables users to reach any page with a single keyboard selection
THE NEXT GENERATION APPROACH TO ACCESSIBILITY
The Accessibility Profiles provide a tailored accessible experience by bundling commonly used accessibility combinations. Users can simply choose the right one for their needs.
The Seizure Safe Profile is designed to enable people with epilepsy to use a website safely by eliminating the risk of seizures that may be caused by flashing or blinking animations or risky colour combinations.
Vision impaired individuals often have difficulty using the Internet because websites are not designed with their needs in mind. aCt is an accessibility interface that makes it easier for those with vision impairments such as Degrading Eyesight, Tunnel Vision, Cataracts, Glaucoma, and others to use the web. It provides accommodations such as larger text, simplified layouts, and adjustments to colour contrast and brightness.
The ADHA-friendly profile provides a more distraction and noise-free browsing experience for those with ADHD or neurodevelopmental disorders. This makes it easier to focus on the essential elements of the website.
The Cognitive Disability Profile provides various assistive features to help users with cognitive disabilities such as Autism, Dyslexia, CVA, and others to focus on the essential elements of the website more easily.
The Keyboard Navigation Profile enables individuals with motor impairments to operate the website using the keyboard Tab, Shift+Tab and the Enter keys. Users can also utilise shortcuts such as "M" (menus), "H" (headings), "F" (forms), "B" (buttons), and "G" (graphics) to jump to specific pages.
Screen reader software is installed on many blind users' devices to make websites and applications accessible. This profile alters the website to work better with commonly used screen readers such as JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver, and TalkBack. By ensuring compatibility with these tools, websites can empower blind users to navigate and interact with digital content independently.
A READABLE EXPERIENCE
The Accessibility Interface enables users to adjust how your site's content is displayed, making it as readable as possible to someone with a particular disability. Users with vision impairments, like blurred vision or ageing sight, utilise these adjustments to customise your website's content to their specific needs.
Making your website's content accessible is essential for everyone, not just those with disabilities. The Accessibility Interface provides an easy way for all users to customise how your content looks so that it is readable and comfortable.
A VISUALLY PLEASING EXPERIENCE
This section adjusts colours and contrasts to optimise legibility and accessibility for individuals with various visual disabilities. People with colour blindness or various visual impairments may not be able to see your content well enough, while light-sensitive users may not be able to surf websites with white backgrounds.
Section adjustments: Contrast, Saturation, Brightness, Dark Contrast, Light Contrast, Monochrome, Text Colourisation, Title Colourisation, and Background Colourisation.
FOR EASY ORIENTATION
The interface adjustments offered by aCt are designed to help people with vision impairments, cognitive disabilities, or motor impairments orient themselves on your website. This is done by providing them with shortcuts, guiding elements, and reducing distractions and noise.
Specific adjustments that are available include hiding images, muting sounds, displaying useful links, and activating read mode. Some adjustments can help readers focus on the text they are reading, such as highlighting the current focus. Additionally, there are two cursors that can be helpful for those with limited vision - a big white cursor and a big black cursor.
The 12 languages built into aCt make it easy to power the accessibility of websites all over the world, regardless of legislation or regulation.
Our dictionary provides instant meaning for users with cognitive disabilities who may find it challenging to comprehend specific phrases, language, or slang.
THE COMPLETE ACCESSIBILITY SUITE
aCt's comprehensive range of adjustments helps ensure WCAG 2.1 AA compliance and surpasses current UK regulatory requirements for online accessibility. It's not just about meeting minimum standards; we are committed to doing the right thing for users with accessibility needs.
Full accessibility of hidden elements
ALT tag creation using image recognition technology
Full adjustment to screen readers, including role building
Forms accessibility, including label matching and error handling
Full adjustment to keyboard navigation
Advanced keyboard navigation using letter shortcuts
Expression, slang, and phrases built-in dictionary
Built-in accessibility statement
Built-in accessible user guide
Adjust font sizes and content scaling
12 built-in languages in the interface
Dynamic content accessibility (Ajax, Angular, React, Vue...)
Built-in feedback form
Links and clickable element accessibility
Font replacement to more readable fonts
Virtual keyboard for motor impairments
Modify text spacing and alignments
Accessibility of titles and paragraphs
Quick skip to the main content and other areas
Quick navigation for those with motor impairments and blind users
Emphasis focuses on keyboard navigation or mouse hovering
Icon and buttons accessibility
Align content to the left, right, centre, or justified
Accessibility of page and browser titles
Complete tables accessibility
Keyboard navigation, including dropdowns and popups
Change cursor to big black or big white
Control of interface size and position
Control over title, text, and background colours
Contrast alteration: lighten, darken, inverse, or grayscale
Display and emphasise image descriptions
Hide images and background images (distracting elements)
Animations halt, including GIFs, Videos, CSS, and more
Muted mode (for people with hearing devices)
Accessible printing mode
For websites under 1,000 pages
This option is most popular with the vast majority of website owners. If you are unsure how many pages your website contains type “site:yourwebsite.com” into Google. The number next to “results” is your page count.
No credit card required
7 DAY FREE TRIAL AVAILABLE
For websites under 10,000 pages
This option is most popular with medium to large e-commerce website owners. If you are unsure how many pages your website contains type “site:yourwebsite.com” into Google. The number next to “results” is your page count.
No credit card required
7 DAY FREE TRIAL AVAILABLE
For websites under 100,000 pages
This option is suited to a very specific category of websites. This option is for those that have a vast number of pages. If you are unsure how many pages your website contains type “site:yourwebsite.com” into Google. The number next to “results” is your page count.
No credit card required
7 DAY FREE TRIAL AVAILABLE
*If your website receives over 100K+ monthly visitors please get in touch as a custom plan will need to be created for you. Otherwise price is based on page count only.
How we count pages
We define a page by a unique URL, not including URL parameters.
Meaning if a page has URL parameters, all of them together are considered one page.
To verify page count, type “site:yourwebsite.com” into Google.
The number next to “results” is your page count.
The quickest way to get in touch is to chat with us online.
You can find answers to our frequently asked questions on our FAQs page and if you visit our Help Centre you will find all of the information required to get in touch. You can also phone a friendly member of the Black Label UK team on 01332 470 350. Our phonelines are open Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm, excluding UK Bank Holidays.