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Website Accessibility

Overview

Introduction

The CDC estimates that 1 in 4 US adults have disabilities that affect their daily activities. Visitors with disabilities may have special needs or use special software to browse the web, for example: navigating with a keyboard only, using a screen reader (which is software that will read web pages out loud), vision impairment that prevents seeing low contrast colors, cognitive impairments which can make certain content difficult to understand, among many other things.

Website accessibility helps visitors with disabilities navigate and use your site more easily. The international set of guidelines that the World Wide Web consortium has published in order to help businesses and organizations create websites that are accessible are called the "Web Content Accessibility Guidelines" or WCAG. You can learn more about web accessibility at the w3 website.

Your Role and How We Help

You're responsible for ensuring your business, including your website, complies with applicable laws, including local accessibility requirements. In order to assist you in this goal, we have constructed the website templates that your site uses to support all of the WCAG version 2.1, level AA requirements.

Some content in your site is automatically generated or created, for example:

  • The main menu
  • Movie posters
  • The Watch Trailer buttons
  • Reserved seat maps
  • The checkout form

This auto-generated content has been coded by our developers to follow the WCAG 2.1 AA guidelines as closely as possible.

Other content in your site is entered in a more freeform way by your team such as:

  • Static pages
  • Image galleries
  • Food & drink menus

Since we cannot control how this content is inserted into the page, your team is responsible for ensuring that this content follows WCAG guidelines. The pages in this section will help you better understand how to enter content in an accessible way.

Helpful Terms

Here are some terms used throughout this documentation which may be helpful to understand before reading further. This is in no way an exhaustive list of all terms related to accessibility support in technology, these are simply the terms used in Filmbot's accessibility help pages.

Screen Reader

Software often used by vision impaired users that will read the elements on a web page as they are focused.

Keyboard-only Navigation

The process of navigating a website using the keyboard instead of a mouse or trackpad.

Vision Impaired Users

Visitors who may be color blind, have reduced or blurry vision, or be otherwise unable to see.

Cognitive Impairment

A type of disability which may cause: difficulty reading text, following instructions, remembering items, or trouble processing information.

Mobility Impaired Users

Visitors who may have difficulty with motor movements, which among other things, may impede their ability to use input devices such as a mouse or trackpad.

Alt Text

Text you can fill out in an image tag which describes the image. This text is read out loud when a screen reader user focuses their cursor on an image.

Aria Label

A field you can add to an element on a web page which will describe it to users who are browsing using a screen reader.