The application
AI
accessWidget’s AI is responsible for handling the more complex accessibility adjustments such as
screen-reader optimization and keyboard navigation. Prior to accessWidget, these could only be
achieved manually, with long, complex, and costly projects.
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Screen-reader optimization
accessWidget’s AI applies the contextual understanding processes while analyzing a site.
It visually matches elements and behaviors to millions of past encounters, to learn from context
what elements actually do and their purpose on the page. Then all the necessary code
adjustments are implemented in order to reflect to blind people using screen readers exactly
what’s on the screen and the purpose of every element, exactly as it was intended originally.
For example, accessWidget automatically and accurately labels forms and adds descriptions for
actionable icons, such as social media. Additionally, our AI scans all of the website’s images and
provides an accurate, elaborate image descriptions, or ALT (Alternate Text) tag.
It also extracts texts that are embedded within the image, using OCR (Optical Character
Recognition) technology.
Note that accessWidget will not override your ALT tags, titles, or any other manual accessibility
work that has been done. We take into consideration that if you’ve made adjustments yourself,
it’s probably for a reason. Screen reader users in need of these adjustments receive automatic
announcements to turn on these adjustments as soon as they enter your website.
Keyboard navigation optimization
For users who have trouble using a mouse, our AI adjusts the website’s HTML, as well as adding
various behaviors using JavaScript code, to make the website fully navigable by keyboard.
accessWidget’s Contextual Understanding AI engine matches the behavior, style, and
structure of your website’s elements to millions of past experiences, to learn their
functionality and provide keyboard navigation and operational functionality to each of them.
This includes navigating the entire site using the TAB and SHIFT+TAB keys, operating dropdowns
with the arrow keys, closing elements with Esc, triggering buttons and links using Enter,
navigating between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, filling them in with the
Spacebar or Enter key, navigate using key shortcuts, and more.
accessWidget’s automated service has only a few exceptions with is remediation of PDFs, documents,
and multimedia (video/audio subtitles), as they are not a part of
your codebase.
Lastly, if your website has an element that is unique and does not exist almost anywhere else, such as a
quiz, game, ticketing section, map, or any other rare component, accessWidget may not be able to fix it.
AI and machine learning technologies depend on a high amount of encounters and data to be accurate.