Accessibility statement

We want this site to be usable by everybody who comes to it, including people who read with a screen reader, work with a keyboard alone, magnify the page, or need it to hold still. This page says what standard we work to, what has been done, and what has not.

The standard we work to

Level AA of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, version 2.1, which is the level Israeli Standard 5568 adopts. We believe this site substantially conforms to it. That is our own assessment, made by reviewing the site against the criteria; it has not yet been audited by an outside party, and this page will say so when it has.

What has been done

• One first-level heading on each page, with the headings under it in order and no level skipped.
• A skip link as the first thing a keyboard reaches, so the content is one press away rather than forty-six.
• Every region named, including the two that carry no visible heading of their own.
• Every control is a real button or a real link, reachable and operable by keyboard, with a focus outline you can see on every one of them.
• Text and controls checked against their own background, and none of them sits below the 4.5:1 the standard asks for.
• The page reflows to a 320 pixel width without a horizontal scrollbar, and text can be enlarged without anything being cut off.
• The drawings are decorative and are hidden from assistive technology; the one animated illustration carries a written description of what it shows.
• All motion stops when your operating system says you prefer reduced motion, and the illustration holds on a complete frame rather than an empty one.
• Each page declares its own language and reading direction, and every link to another language declares the language it leads to.

The accessibility controls on this site

The button in the lower corner of every page opens four settings: text size up to 160 percent, higher contrast, underlined links, and animation off. They are remembered on your own device and are never sent to us. They are an addition to the work above, not a substitute for it, and this site deliberately does not use one of the overlay products that claim to make a site conformant by rewriting it as you arrive.

What is not covered, and what we know is imperfect

• The illustration in the page header animates by default. It stops if your system asks for reduced motion, or from the accessibility button.
• The sign-in area and the administrative console are used by a small number of invited people and have not been reviewed to the same level.
• The shopping assistant, where it is embedded in a retailer’s own website, sits inside a page we do not control. Our part of it is built to the same standard; the page around it is the retailer’s responsibility and is covered by their own statement.
• Documents and material published by other organisations, which we link to but do not host.

Accessibility coordinator

Roei Levin is responsible for accessibility on this site. Write to the address below with what failed, which page it was on, and what you were using to read it. We answer within 5 business days, and we will tell you what we can fix and when.

If we cannot fix it

If something on this site cannot be made accessible, we will say so plainly on this page and offer another way to get the same information or do the same thing.

Tell us what did not work

Write to info@agalit.com. A description of the problem helps more than a report that a page is inaccessible.

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