At Jeffrey Jordan Architects, we recognize that website accessibility for all clients is critical. Toward this end, we would like to announce that our website is now ADA Accessible. These changes are part of our company’s commitment to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, ensuring those with disabilities can easily access our services.
Some of the enhanced functionalities include features that help our website be perceived more easily, be more operable and understandable, and work with more assistance devices and software. These enhancements allow those with visual, auditory, cognitive, or physical impairments to perceive and understand our site’s content, tools, and navigation.
Examples of changes that have increased ADA compliance on our website include:
- Increased functionality with screen readers. This type of assistive technology helps those with visual impairments navigate the website. It enables text and descriptions of the imagery to be spoken aloud to the user. But in order for this technology to work, it must contain textual descriptions of the visual content. Jeffrey Jordan Architect ensures that those with visual impairments can have a comparable online experience as any other user by including this data.
- Color enhancements. Individuals with color blindness or low vision often have difficulty reading and differentiating visual elements with low color contrasts. To enhance the ability to perceive differences, the website for Jeffrey Jordan Architect now contains a feature that can highlight and underline links. The highlighting feature can help provide a greater contrast that some can perceive more easily. The underline feature also provides another way to differentiate the text that leads to links with regular informative text on the website.
- Text resizing functionality. Text resizing is another way to make information more accessible to those with impaired vision. Our website now has a fixed text resizing tool that only changes the size of the text without distorting other elements of the website. With a simple click, the user can adjust the size of the text by increasing or decreasing it until it is the perfect size for them.
- Keyboard only command options.Our website also has enhanced keyboard functionality for users who may have difficulty operating a mouse. The keyboard controls also work well with other assistive technologies, such as screen readers.
- Enhanced user control.The Jeffrey Jordan Architect website includes controls so that nothing changes without the user directing the activity. Our website also contains no videos, animations, audio clips, or other features that will begin working without the user controlling these actions. These auto-play features can sometimes serve as a detrimental trigger for those with epilepsy or similar conditions.
Accessibility is essential in the modern world. Fortunately, technology can enhance accessibility to extend to areas where it may have previously been impossible. As our team at Jeffrey Jordan are committed to serving all of our clients to the best of our ability, these changes demonstrate one way in which we continually strive to improve our services. To learn more about the services offered by Jeffrey Jordan Architect, contact us today.
Located in the Greater New York area, Jeffrey Jordan Architect specializes in the design of high-end projects such as luxury apartment and townhouse renovations, schools, churches, temples, and offices.