Introduction to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a United States of American federal civil rights law that prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities in everyday activities. The ADA prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability just as other civil rights laws prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, national origin, age, and religion. The ADA guarantees that people with disabilities have the same opportunities as everyone else to enjoy employment opportunities, purchase goods and services, and participate in state and local government programs. Read more here.

The owners of this website are committed to making our website accessible to all users. 

We will continue to make every effort to test the website and to remove barriers that prevent persons with disabilities from interacting with or accessing information made available on our website. There are approximately 36 modifications in 4 categories that can be applied to this site to adjust the user's experience. To modify the site, click or tap the blue icon of a person at the bottom right of page. If you should have suggestions on how to improve the site’s accessibility for users, please get in touch with us by visiting the contact page.

Accessibility Mode

Epilepsy Safe Mode - This profile enables people with epilepsy to use the website safely by eliminating the risk of seizures that result from flashing or blinking animations and risky color combinations.

Cognitive Disability Mode - This mode provides different assistive options to help users with cognitive impairments such as Dyslexia, Autism, CVA, and others, to focus on the essential elements of the website more easily.

ADHD Friendly Mode - This mode helps users with ADHD and Neurodevelopmental disorders to read, browse, and focus on the main website elements more easily while significantly reducing distractions.

Blindness Mode - This mode configures the website to be compatible with screen-readers such as JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver, and TalkBack. A screen-reader is software for blind users that is installed on a computer and smartphone, and websites must be compatible with it.

Visually Impaired Mode - This mode adjusts the website for the convenience of users with visual impairments such as Degrading Eyesight, Tunnel Vision, Cataract, Glaucoma, and others.

Readable Experience

Tools that enable users to adjust how the content of how the site is displayed, so it is as readable as possible.

Content Scaling - The option allows scaling the website content.

Readable Font - The option converts the content font to a more readable one.

Dyslexia Friendly - The option adapts the font to be more convenient for Dyslexic users.

Highlight Titles - The option highlights the titles with borders for all site content.

Highlight Links - The option highlights the links with borders for all site content.

Text Magnifier - The option allows you to display specific text in the magnifier on hover.

Font Sizing - The option allows you to change the text font size as a percentage.

Line Height - The option allows you to change the font line-height as a percentage

Letter Spacing - The option allows you to change the text letter spacing as a percentage.

Text Alignment - The option aligns the website content to the left, center or right.

Visual Experience

Tools relating to the colorization of the website.

Dark contrast - The option sets a dark contrast for the content of the entire site.

Light contrast - The option sets a light contrast for the content of the entire site.

Monochrome - The option applies a monochrome color scheme for the entire site.

High Saturation - The option adds color saturation for the entire site content.

High Contrast - The option increases color contrast for the entire site content.

Low Saturation - The option minimizes color saturation for the entire site content.

Text Color - The option displays a color picker to adjust the text color of website content.

Title Color - The option displays a color picker to adjust the title color of website content.

Background Color - The option displays a color picker to adjust the background color of website content.

Orientation Experience

Tools for people with visual impairments, cognitive disabilities, or motor impairments to orient better at the site.

Mute Sounds - The option mutes all sounds on the site.

Hide Images - The option hides all images on the site.

Virtual Keyboard - The option enables the virtual keyboard when any one of the input fields is active.

Stop Animations - The option allows disabling animations on the site.

Highlight Hover - The option highlights the hover area by borders.

Highlight Focus - The option highlights the focus area by borders.

Big Black Cursor - The option enables a large black cursor instead of the regular one.

Big White Cursor - The option enables a large white cursor instead of the regular one.

Reading Guide - The option displays a guideline that follows the cursor and helps to concentrate only on the specific text.

Keyboard Navigation - The option enables a keyboard navigation feature.

Reading Mask - The option creates a horizontal mask of a certain height that follows the cursor and allows you to select and focus only on a certain part of the content.

Text To Speech - The option enables the Text-to-Speech feature. Audio is generated when the user highlights text.