Accessibility Statement

1. Our commitment

Financepedia believes that reliable financial information is a public good and must be available to everyone, including people with visual, hearing, motor, cognitive or other disabilities, older readers, and people using assistive technologies. We treat accessibility as part of accuracy: an entry that cannot be read is not a usable reference.

This statement is published in accordance with the Israeli Equal Rights for Persons with Disabilities Law, 5758-1998, and the Equal Rights for Persons with Disabilities (Service Accessibility Adjustments) Regulations, 5773-2013, and reflects our aims under the EU Web Accessibility Directive, the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Australian Disability Discrimination Act.

2. Conformance standard and status

The site has been designed and built to conform with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 at level AA and with Israeli Standard SI 5568, which adopts WCAG at level AA. The site's templates, navigation and interactive components have been built to meet the standard. Conformance has not yet been confirmed by an independent audit. The limitations we know of are listed below.

3. Accessibility built into the site

Structure and navigation

• A "Skip to content" link is the first item on every page; press Tab once after the page loads to reveal it.
• Every page has one main landmark, a labelled main navigation, a search landmark, and a footer.
• Each page has a single top-level heading and a logical heading hierarchy, so screen-reader users can jump between sections.
• Long entries and policies have a table of contents with links to each section.
• Page titles are unique and descriptive, and the language of each page is declared, so screen readers pronounce English and Hebrew correctly.
• The Hebrew edition is fully right-to-left at the document level, not merely right-aligned.

Keyboard and focus

• All functionality — navigation, search, language switching, forms, the cookie notice and the accessibility menu — works with a keyboard alone.
• A clearly visible focus outline shows where you are at all times.
• Focus order follows the visual and reading order; there are no keyboard traps; pop-up panels close with Escape and return focus to the control that opened them.
• Interactive targets are at least 44 by 44 pixels where practical.

Visual presentation

• Text and interface colours meet a contrast ratio of at least 4.5:1 for body text and 3:1 for large text and interface elements.
• Information is never conveyed by colour alone.
• Text can be enlarged to 200% with browser zoom, and content reflows at 320 pixels wide without horizontal scrolling for reading content.
• The site respects your operating system's "reduce motion" setting and contains no flashing content.

Content and forms

• Meaningful images have text alternatives; decorative images are hidden from assistive technology; illustrations have captions.
• Every form field has a visible, programmatically associated label; required fields and input types are declared.
• Form errors and confirmation messages are announced automatically to screen readers.
• Tables use proper headers and captions; lists use list markup.
• Links have descriptive text; links in the other language are marked with their language.
• Entries open with a short plain-language definition before detailed content.

4. The accessibility menu

The round accessibility button in the corner of every page opens a menu of adjustments. Your choices are saved in your browser and applied on every page until you reset them:

• Text size — enlarge text in steps up to 150%.
• High contrast — switches to black text on a pure white background with stronger borders.
• Highlight links — underlines every link and highlights it on focus.
• Readable font — replaces the serif headings with a plain sans-serif font and increases letter, word and line spacing.
• Stop animations — removes all transitions and animations.
• Grayscale — removes colour for readers who find it distracting.
• Reset — returns all settings to default.

The menu complements, and does not replace, the accessibility of the site itself or the settings of your own browser and assistive technology, which we fully support.

5. Compatibility and testing

The site is built on standard, semantic HTML and follows the techniques of WCAG 2.2 so that it works with current browsers, screen readers, operating-system zoom, magnifiers, high-contrast modes and voice control. Automated browser checks are run on our page templates. A formal manual audit with assistive technologies has not yet been carried out; when it is, its date and scope will be published here.

6. Known limitations

• External sources. Cited sources are third-party documents (for example regulator PDFs) that we do not control and that may not be accessible. Where possible we summarise the relevant fact in the entry itself.
• Dense reference lists. Entries with many citations produce long lists for screen readers; each list is placed at the end of the entry under its own heading so it can be skipped.
• Mixed-language content. Some entries contain names or terms in another language that may not be individually marked; we are marking these progressively.
• Illustrations. Abstract illustrations on About and Methodology pages are described by captions rather than detailed descriptions.

7. Physical premises and services

Financepedia is an online-only service and does not operate premises open to the public. All reader services, including suggestions, corrections and requests, are available online and by email.

8. Feedback

If you encounter any barrier, or need information from the site in an alternative format, please tell us. We treat accessibility reports as priority corrections.

• Use the "Suggest a correction" form on any entry and mention accessibility.

Please tell us the page address, what you were trying to do, the problem you met, and the browser and assistive technology you use. If you are not satisfied with our response, you may contact the Commission for Equal Rights of Persons with Disabilities at the Israeli Ministry of Justice, or the equivalent body in your country.

9. Updates to this statement

This statement was prepared on 28 September 2026 and is reviewed whenever the site changes significantly, and at least once a year. See also our Terms of Use.