Accessibility
EndlessPens LLC (‘EndlessPens’)
Web Accessibility Statement
EndlessPens believes that the internet should be available and accessible to everyone, and we are dedicated to producing a website that is accessible to the broadest possible audience, regardless of circumstance or ability.
We strive to conform as closely as possible to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level as set forth by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in order to deliver on this promise. These recommendations outline ways to improve the accessibility of web content for users with various disabilities. Following such rules enables us to offer a site that is accessible to everyone.
We have taken steps to make sure our website makes use of a variety of technologies designed to increase accessibility. We use a user interface that enables people with certain disabilities to customize the website's user interface (UI) to suit their unique needs.
Here are some of the interface’s capabilities:
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Font adjustments — Users have the ability to change its family (type), size, spacing, alignment, line height, and other features.
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Color adjustments — The user has a variety of color contrast settings to choose from, including light, dark, reversed, and monochromatic. Users can also change the backgrounds, headings, and texts' color schemes using more than 7 different color schemes.
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Animations — All running animations can be stopped instantly for epileptic users by clicking a button. The user interface may control GIFs, movies, and CSS flashing transitions.
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Content highlighting — Users have the option to highlight key elements like links and titles. Also, they have the option to only highlight hovered or focused elements.
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Audio muting — Automatic audio playback might cause headaches or other problems for hearing aid users. Users can instantaneously mute the entire website with this feature.
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Cognitive disorders — Those with cognitive problems can use our search engine, which is linked to Wikipedia and Wiktionary, to determine the meanings of phrases, initials, slang, and other terms.
- Additional functions — We give customers the choice to alter the cursor's size and color, print, activate a virtual keyboard, and do a variety of other operations.
In addition, the website employs an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level every 24 hours. This AI engine fixes HTML issues on the website and orients the site's functionality and behavior for some of our visitors who use screen readers.
We utilize AI for the following accessibility components:
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Screen-reader optimization: The AI runs in the background and learns the website's components from top to bottom, providing meaningful data to screen-readers via the ARIA set of attributes. It will, for example, provide accurate form labels, descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, and so on), validation guidance for form inputs, and element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and so on.
Furthermore, the AI scans all of the images on the website and generates an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag. Using OCR (optical character recognition) technology, it will also extract text that is embedded within the image. Users can enable screen-reader adjustments at any time by pressing the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users will also receive automatic announcements to enable changes as soon as they enter the website.
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Keyboard navigation optimization: To make the website fully operable by a keyboard, the AI modifies the HTML and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code. This includes the ability to navigate the entire site with the TAB and SHIFT+TAB keys, use the arrow keys to operate dropdowns, close them with ESC, trigger buttons and links with the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements with the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.
Keyboard users will also find quick-navigation and content-skip menus (accessible at any time by pressing Alt+1). The AI will also handle triggered popups by shifting the keyboard focus to them as soon as they appear and not allowing it to drift outside of them.
Browser and Assistive Technology Compatibility:
We strive to support as many browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so that our users can select the best tools for them with the fewest limitations. As a result, we have worked very hard to support all major systems that account for more than 95% of the user market share, including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera, Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer 11 or higher, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers), both for Windows and MAC users. This website is also accessible via other platforms, though we do not officially support them and recommend that users use the aforementioned systems.
Notes, Comments, and Feedback:
Despite our best efforts to make the website accessible to everyone, there may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or lack an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. We continue to improve the accessibility interface by adding, updating, and improving its options and features, as well as developing and adopting new technologies. All of this is done to ensure maximum accessibility at all times and in accordance with technological advancements.
If you find a bug, find any aspect of the interface difficult to use, or have suggestions for improvement, we'd love to hear from you. Please contact us using one of the methods listed below.
By Phone:
+1 (888) 820-0886
By Email:
Complete our online form.
By Mail:
EndlessPens, P.O Box: 89713, Tampa, Fl, 33689, United States