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Events

TechAbility Conference: 21 November 2024 Leeds
ISAAC Vibes of AAC International online conference: 29 - 30 October 2021
Access to Academic Learning Conference: 1 -31 October 2024
1 Voice Fun Day: Saturday 1 June 2024 11am to 4pm
1 Voice Yorkshire and North East Event
1 Voice National Residential Weekend 2-4 August 2024
Communication Matters International Conference: 8-10 September 2024
Royal College of Speech and Language Therapy Conference 1 & 2 Nov 2023
Communication Matters Mentoring Drop In 24/3/23
Communication Matters International AAC Conference 2023
Communication Works North 25/5/23
Communication Works South 18/5/23
Communication Matters Awards 2023
ISAAC International Conference July 2023
ISAAC International Conference July 2023
CP Teens Dreams Workshop 6/11/22
UNCRPD Committee 15 August 2022
1 Voice National Residential Weekend
Communication Matters International Conference: Plenary Speaker
Communication Matters International Conference
Passion for Potential, Naidex 6th July 2022 at 3.30pm
Part 2 of the 'Identity and AAC' Breaking the Ice Virtual Town Hall
The Vale Primary School
Valence School Visit
Dreams can come true
Breaking the Ice Town Hall Meeting 'Identity and AAC'
To the Paralympics with 2 power chairs and AAC
University of York Social Sciences Graduating Class
AT Mentors Workshop
APPG on Cerebral Palsy: 9th November 2021
2021 World Boccia European Regional Championships: Seville
York Disability Week: 27th November to 4th December 2021
December 2021 CPISRA Conference on Physical Activity and Health
Beth Moulam - Keynote at Communication Matters 14/9/2021
ISAAC biennial conference Cancun Mexico 22 July to 27 July 2023
Communication Matters International virtual conference
ISAAC Connect virtual conference
The Paralympics Tokyo 2020
AAC Awareness Training
ISAAC Pathways to Leadership
Passion and Dreams
Beth Moulam – TASS Athlete and nutrition
Ann Craft Trust – Safeguarding in sport
Daring to Dream
An active lifestyle
The ties that bind us, learning to let go
Daring to Lead
Beth Moulam – TASS Athlete and nutrition
Synaesthesia: An explosion of the senses and the impact on thinking and learning
Me and my extended shadow
Me and my extended shadow
Are young people who use AAC equipped to live independently?
Connectedness: Up close and personal
Connectedness: Up close and personal
Independent living and what it means to us
Communication on the move
Language and Literacy – my journey
Daring to Dream workshop
Sitting UK national exams – an AAC user perspective
AAC around the world
My Communication
Accessing GCSEs using AAC
Best practice in teaching and learning
Sitting GCSE’s using AAC: A personal perspective
The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth: Labelled?
Making a difference: 1 Voice Teenagers experiences over 5 years
Mel Smith’s Dream’s workshop
Dance workshop collaboration
The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth: Labelled?
How Professionals can help AAC users
How Professionals can help AAC users
My life story
Life is beautiful if you let it be
My life story
My future
My life story
My life story

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Accessibility modes

Epilepsy Safe Mode

Epilepsy Safe Mode

Dampens color and removes blinks

This mode enables people with epilepsy to use the website safely by eliminating the risk of seizures that result from flashing or blinking animations and risky color combinations.

Visually Impaired Mode

Visually Impaired Mode

Improves website's visuals

This mode adjusts the website for the convenience of users with visual impairments such as Degrading Eyesight, Tunnel Vision, Cataract, Glaucoma, and others.

Cognitive Disability Mode

Cognitive Disability Mode

Helps to focus on specific content

This mode provides different assistive options to help users with cognitive impairments such as Dyslexia, Autism, CVA, and others, to focus on the essential elements of the website more easily.

ADHD Friendly Mode

ADHD Friendly Mode

Reduces distractions and improve focus

This mode helps users with ADHD and Neurodevelopmental disorders to read, browse, and focus on the main website elements more easily while significantly reducing distractions.

Blindness Mode

Blindness Mode

Allows using the site with your screen-reader

This mode configures the website to be compatible with screen-readers such as JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver, and TalkBack. A screen-reader is software for blind users that is installed on a computer and smartphone, and websites must be compatible with it.

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Start typing to search in Wikipedia

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Content Scaling

Default

Text Magnifier

Readable Font

Dyslexia Friendly

Highlight Titles

Highlight Links

Font Sizing

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Line Height

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Letter Spacing

Default

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Center Aligned

Right Aligned

Visually Pleasing Experience

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Light Contrast

Monochrome

High Contrast

High Saturation

Low Saturation

Adjust Text Colors

Adjust Title Colors

Adjust Background Colors

Easy Orientation

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Beth Moulam Accessibility Statement

Accessibility Statement

www.bethmoulam.com
October 7, 2024

Compliance status

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, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.

This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.

Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.

If you’ve found a malfunction or have ideas for improvement, we’ll be happy to hear from you. You can reach out to the website’s operators by using the following email

Screen-reader and keyboard navigation

Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:

Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we 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 background process scans all of the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. 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, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.

These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website 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, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside of it.

Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.

Disability profiles supported in our website

Epilepsy Safe Mode: this profile enables people with epilepsy to use the website safely by eliminating the risk of seizures that result from flashing or blinking animations and risky color combinations.
Visually Impaired Mode: this mode adjusts the website for the convenience of users with visual impairments such as Degrading Eyesight, Tunnel Vision, Cataract, Glaucoma, and others.
Cognitive Disability Mode: this mode provides different assistive options to help users with cognitive impairments such as Dyslexia, Autism, CVA, and others, to focus on the essential elements of the website more easily.
ADHD Friendly Mode: this mode helps users with ADHD and Neurodevelopmental disorders to read, browse, and focus on the main website elements more easily while significantly reducing distractions.
Blindness Mode: this mode configures the website to be compatible with screen-readers such as JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver, and TalkBack. A screen-reader is software for blind users that is installed on a computer and smartphone, and websites must be compatible with it.
Keyboard Navigation Profile (Motor-Impaired): this profile enables motor-impaired persons to operate the website using the keyboard Tab, Shift+Tab, and the Enter keys. Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.

Additional UI, design, and readability adjustments

Font adjustments – users, can increase and decrease its size, change its family (type), adjust the spacing, alignment, line height, and more.
Color adjustments – 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.
Animations – epileptic users can stop all running animations with the click of a button. Animations controlled by the interface include videos, GIFs, and CSS flashing transitions.
Content highlighting – users can choose to emphasize important elements such as links and titles. They can also choose to highlight focused or hovered elements only.
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.
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.
Additional functions – we provide users the option to change cursor color and size, use a printing mode, enable a virtual keyboard, and many other functions.

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 major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers), both for Windows and for MAC users.

Notes, comments, and feedback

Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs, there may 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 continually improving our accessibility, 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, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to