Accessibility Statement
www.hotel-aviva.at
26 August 2025
Conformance Status
We firmly believe that the Internet should be accessible to everyone. Therefore, we are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of individual circumstances and abilities. To achieve this, we strive to comply as closely as possible with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at AA level. These guidelines explain how web content can be made accessible to people with a wide range of disabilities. Compliance with these guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to everyone – including blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairments, cognitive disabilities, and more. This website uses various technologies to ensure accessibility at all times. This includes an accessibility interface that allows people with certain limitations to adapt the user interface (UI) of the website to their needs. In addition, the website uses an AI-powered application that runs in the background and continuously optimizes accessibility. This application improves the website’s HTML, adjusts functionality and behavior for screen readers, and facilitates keyboard navigation for people with motor impairments. If you encounter problems or have suggestions for improvement, we welcome your feedback. You can contact the website operators at: info@hotel-aviva.at
Screen Reader and Keyboard Navigation
Our website implements ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) techniques as well as various behavioral adjustments to ensure that blind users with screen readers can fully use the website. As soon as a user with a screen reader enters the site, they automatically receive a prompt to activate screen reader mode.
Optimization for Screen Readers:
A background process analyzes all components of the website to ensure accessibility is maintained even with future updates. In this process, screen readers are provided with essential data through ARIA attributes. This includes:
- Accurate form labels
- Descriptions for interactive icons (e.g., social media icons, search icons, shopping cart icons)
- Validation messages for form inputs
- Element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogs (popups), and more
- Automatic image descriptions via object recognition technology (ALT tags)
- Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to extract embedded text from images
- To activate screen reader mode at any time, users can press the Alt+1 keyboard shortcut. Screen reader users also receive automatic prompts to activate the mode upon entering the website. These adjustments are compatible with common screen readers such as JAWS and NVDA.
Optimization of Keyboard Navigation:
A background process adapts the website’s HTML and adds various behaviors to enable keyboard operation. These include:
- Navigation using Tab and Shift+Tab
- Operating dropdown menus with arrow keys
- Closing menus with the Esc key
- Activating buttons and links with the Enter key
- Navigating between radio buttons and checkboxes with arrow keys and selecting with spacebar or Enter
- Quick-access and skip-to-content menus, available with Alt+1 or as the first element of the page when using keyboard navigation
- Automatic focus on popups as soon as they appear
- In addition, users can use keyboard shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
Supported Accessibility Profiles
Our website offers various profiles for users with special needs:
- Epilepsy Safe Mode: Disables flashing animations and risky color combinations to prevent seizures.
- Visually Impaired Mode: Optimizes display for users with vision impairments such as cataracts, glaucoma, or tunnel vision.
- Cognitive Disability Mode: Supports users with dyslexia, autism, stroke, and other cognitive limitations by adjusting content.
- ADHD-Friendly Mode: Reduces distractions and helps focus on main content for users with ADHD and other neurodivergent conditions.
- Blindness Mode: Optimizes the site for screen readers such as JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver, and TalkBack.
- Keyboard Navigation Profile (for motor-impaired users): Allows full control of the website via Tab, Shift+Tab, Enter, and special shortcuts.
Additional Adjustments of UI, Design, and Readability
Our website allows various adjustments, including:
- Text adjustments – change size, font, line spacing, letter and word spacing
- Color contrasts – choose from different contrast profiles (light, dark, inverted, monochrome)
- Disable animations – stop all moving content (videos, GIFs, CSS transitions)
- Highlight content – emphasize important elements such as links and titles
- Mute sound – instantly disable audio for users with hearing aids
- Cognitive assistance – integrated search function with Wikipedia and Wiktionary linking for explanations of terms
- Additional features – change cursor color and size, print mode, virtual keyboard, and more
Compatibility with Browsers and Assistive Technologies
We strive for the broadest possible support for common browsers and assistive technologies, allowing users to choose the tools that work best for them. Our website is compatible with:
Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera, and Microsoft Edge
Screen readers such as JAWS and NVDA
Notes, Comments, and Feedback
Despite our great efforts, some pages or sections may not yet be fully accessible or may still be undergoing optimization. Nevertheless, we are continuously working to further improve accessibility, add new features, and implement modern technologies.
If you need assistance or have suggestions, please contact us at: info@hotel-aviva.at
