Compliance Standards
The Authority follows several controls to ensure comprehensive accessibility, including:
1. WCAG 2.1 Standards (Level AA):
Designing and developing all digital channels in accordance with international standards for web content accessibility.
2. Support for Assistive Technologies:
Ensuring full compatibility with screen readers, alternative input tools, and magnification devices.
3. Audit and Continuous Improvement:
Conducting periodic technical evaluations to ensure the sustainability of accessibility and updating it according to technical developments.
Integrated Technologies to Enhance User Experience
We work on utilizing technical developments to overcome obstacles for users and ensure ease of access through:
1. Alternative Content:
Providing accurate alternative text (Alt Text) for graphics, data tables, and images to ensure understanding of the content by those with visual impairments.
2. Advanced Color Contrast:
Adopting high-contrast interfaces that make reading easier and reduce eye strain for long-term platform users.
3. Flexibility in Display:
The ability to enlarge text and elements through tools that help without losing data quality or affecting interface stability.
4. Keyboard Navigation:
Enabling users to complete transactions and navigate between all sections of the site entirely via the keyboard using the "Tab" key.
Assistive Tools
The Authority's website provides assistive tools tailored to various user needs, featuring specialized profiles such as: Seizure Safe Mode, Vision Impaired, Cognitive Disability, and Motor Impaired, among others. These profiles aim to ensure seamless content accessibility and efficient use of platform services for persons with disabilities, whether due to visual, auditory, motor, or intellectual impairments.
Compatible Design with Smart Devices
1. Responsive Interfaces (Responsive Design)
Ensuring consistent and seamless performance for the website and electronic services across all smartphones, tablets, and computers.
2. Ease of Touch Interaction
Designing interactive buttons and menus with sufficient spacing to facilitate use on touchscreens.
Commitment to Continuous Improvement
The Capital Market Authority emphasizes its commitment to continuously improving the user experience through:
- Reviewing and updating the policy periodically to ensure it keeps pace with the latest developments.
- Conducting regular audit processes to evaluate and improve accessibility.
- Adopting new technologies and methods to enhance accessibility.
