ACCESSIBILITY
STATEMENT
We firmly believe
that the internet should be available and accessible to anyone, and are
committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible
audience, regardless of circumstance and ability.
To fulfill this
promise, we aim to adhere as closely as possible to the Web Content
Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level, published by the World
Wide Web Consortium (W3C). These guidelines explain how to make web content
more accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with
those guidelines helps us provide a site that is accessible to all people, from
the blind to the motor impaired.
This website
utilizes various technologies all meant to make it more accessible. We utilize
an interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the
website's UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs. This
interface replaces the older fashioned method of providing all users with the
same, lesser but accessible design or user interface.
Here are
some of the interface's capabilities:
1. Font handling -
users can increase and decrease its size, change its family (type), adjust
spacing, alignment, line height, and more.
2. Color handling -
users can select various color contrast profiles such as light, dark, inverted
and monochrome. Additionally, users can swap color schemes of titles, texts,
and backgrounds, with over 7 different coloring options.
3. Animations -
epileptic users can stop all running animations in an instant, at the click of
a button. Those animations include videos, GIFs and CSS flashing transitions.
4. Content
highlighting - users can choose to emphasize important elements such as links
and titles. They can also choose to highlight focused or hovered elements
specifically.
5. Audio muting -
users with hearing devices may experience headaches or other issues due to
automatic audio playing. This option lets users mute the entire website
instantly.
6. Cognitive
disorders - we utilize a search engine that is linked to Wikipedia and
Wiktionary, allowing people with cognitive disorders to decipher meanings of phrases,
initials, slang, and others.
7. Other options -
we provide users the option to change cursor color and sizing, use a printing
mode, enable a virtual keyboard and much more..
Additionally, the
website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and
optimizes its accessibility level every 24 hours. This AI engine remediates the
website's HTML issues, as well as functionality and behavior, to the use of
blind people that are using screen readers, and the motor impaired that are
using a keyboard to operate websites.
We
utilize AI for the following accessibility components:
1. Screen-reader
optimization: The AI runs in the background and learns the website's components
top to bottom, thereby providing screen-readers with meaningful data using the
ARIA set of attributes. For example, it will provide accurate form labels;
descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart
icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as
buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others.
Additionally, the AI
scans all of the website's images and provides an accurate and meaningful
image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag. It
will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR
(optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader
adjustments at any time, click the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader
users also get automatic announcements to turn adjustments on as soon as they
enter the website.
2. Keyboard
navigation optimization: The AI adjusts the website's HTML, as well as adding
various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website fully operable by a
keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the entire site using the TAB
and SHIFT+TAB keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with ESC,
trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and
checkbox elements using the arrow keys, fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter
key, and more.
Additionally,
keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus (available at
any time by clicking Alt+1). The AI will also handle triggered popups by moving
the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and It'll not let the
focus drift outside of it, for best orientation.
Browser
and Assistive Technology Compatibility:
We aim to support
the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our
users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as
possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all the
modern, major and popular systems that comprise over 95% of the users' market
share and include: Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera,
Microsoft Edge and I.E 11 or above, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers), both for
Windows and for MAC users. This website is operable using other systems and
platforms as well, though we are not officially supporting them and recommend
users to utilize the aforementioned.
Notes,
Comments, and Feedback:
Despite our very
best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs, it is
possible that there will still be pages or sections that are not fully
accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an
adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are
constantly improving the accessibility interface, adding, updating and
improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new
technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, at
any time and in accordance with technological advancements.
If you've discovered
a bug or malfunction, if you find any aspect of the interface difficult to use,
or if you have improvement ideas, we'll be happy to hear from you. Simply fill
out the contact form at the top of this page.
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Eligible Vehicles
In order for a vehicle to be eligible in the Ford
Accessibility Program, it must be a new model Ford or Lincoln Car, Van,
CUV, SUV or Truck sold or leased during the program period and/or a
new vehicle acquired from a U.S. Ford Authorized Pool Converter. To remain
eligible, your vehicle must have your qualified adaptive equipment installed
within one year of vehicle purchase or lease date.
Ineligible Vehicles
USED VEHICLES OF ANY KIND ARE NOT ELIGIBLE in the Ford Accessibility Program. This includes
those previously in rental service, lease service or repurchased vehicles
available for resale.
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