Accessibility Statement

The Jewish Agency, which includes the Be’er Sheva—Bnei Shimon—Montreal Partnership, is a law-abiding organization with social responsibility that provides a precise address to those seeking answers on the issue of accessibility and promotes accessibility processes on its site.

Accessible customer service

• The employees of the Be’er Sheva—Bnei Shimon—Montreal Partnership acknowledge the importance of providing accessible services to people with disabilities and how these inquiries about accessible services are being handled.
• Accessibility arrangements in buildings.
• Accessible voice response so that the information is recorded in a clear language and without background music.

The Be’er Sheva – Bnei Shimon – Montreal Partnership is committed to creating a positive service experience in all activities and works to implement this by the provisions of the law on equal rights for persons with disabilities, 1998 and its regulations. The organization makes accessibility adjustments on its website with the assistance of accessibility consultants and other professional parties to allow a full, quick, and efficient service throughout the website to all, including people with disabilities.

Making Accessibility Adaptations to the Website

The accessibility adaptations were made to allow people with disabilities and older people to use the website with the same efficiency and enjoyment as other users.

The website met the requirements of the Equal Rights for the Handicapped Regulations (adaptations of service accessibility) 2013 and was adjusted according to the recommendations of the Israeli Standard (T. I. 5568).

An adjustment was made to the accessibility requirements of an organization W3C to level 2 (AA), and the system was built according to the W3C standard for CSS and HTML.

The website is adapted for display in different browsers (Chrome, Mozilla, Edge) and is used on cell phones. The website was tested using the latest NVDA screen reader.

All actions on the website can be performed using a keyboard as follows:

Pressing Tab selects the next link, and pressing Enter activates the link. Pressing Shift-Tab selects the previous link.

Adaptations for blind users – the website is adapted for those using screen reading software.

The website includes:

• Headlines
• Alternative text for images
• Dividing the website into navigational areas and a central content area, and the possibility of shifting between them
• Use of ARIA to improve the readability of the screen reader.

Accessibility Restrictions and Accessibility Inquiries

We continue to invest great efforts in making the site accessible. However, it is possible that some parts of the website are not yet accessible. Suppose you have encountered a problem or have a question or a comment. In that case, you are welcome to contact us via the Commissioner for Employment of Disabled Workers and the Accessibility Coordinator of the Jewish Agency:

Einav Ben Yerushalmi

Phone: 02-6202570

Email: einavby@jafi.org

You can contact Einav for information regarding the accessibility of the Jewish Agency buildings before a work meeting or an event. In addition, you can get information about the accessibility process of the Jewish Agency for people with disabilities.

To find accessible ways to the Partnership offices in Azrieli Institute, 66 Jerusalem Blvd, Be’er Sheva, and to pre-arrange a visit, please contact Yaara Edelstein at yaarae@jafi.org.

Below is a summary table on the subject:

You can view the Website Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1

In Hebrew – https://www.isoc.org.il/files/w3c-wai/guidelines.html

In English – http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-WCAG20-20081211​

Have You Encountered a Problem? Tell us About it!

We strive to keep and maintain the website at the highest level. If you have encountered difficulties browsing the website, especially regarding accessibility, do not hesitate to report it using the contact form so we can handle the problem in the best way possible. Please include complete details as much as possible:

• Description of the problem.
• Browser type and version.
• Operating system.
• Type of assistive technology (if used).
• What page did you browse?
• What action were you trying to perform?
• We will take care of the problem and get back to you with details on how it was handled as soon as possible.