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Today, MCI wants to mark Remembrance Day. Few people in the UK need reminding of why we link the poppy with Remembrance Day, but after World War One, poppies grew prolifically where the battlefields had been. In English folklaw, the poppy has always been linked with sleep and death, so…
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MCI received a setting system for an industrial band mill from a local sawmill. As you can see from the video above, the system gave inconsistent readings. Our engineers found that there was damage to the encoder inputs. We replaced the damaged components and tested the system to ensure that…
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MCI received two Siemens industrial PCs from a packaging company to fix. We brought them back to life with some components from our distribution warehouse. The computers were promptly returned to the customer in working order. MCI has over a decade of experience in repairing, building and updating industrial computers.…
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MCI would like to wish everyone a very happy Halloween. It has been a colourful sight in Edinburgh and Glasgow this weekend seeing so many people in fancy dress heading off to parties across Scotland. We hope you all enjoyed yourselves! Samhain – The Ancient Halloween For those of us…
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MCI received a damaged energy monitor from an incoming switch room which had been damaged by a surge. We found the blown components, replaced them with new components from our stock then returned it to the client, all in a very short time frame. Unexpected events that damage and destroy…
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MCI wants to shine a light on Robert Stirling, whose birthday is next week. This Scottish inventor, from Galston in East Ayrshire, was both a clergyman and engineer. He went to Edinburgh University and is one of the fathers of hot air engines. In 1816, he was the first to…
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MCI was sent a water control panel that been damaged by water ingress. Our distribution department sourced a new membrane from Italy and it was replaced and sent back to the customer within days. If you have any problems with your control panels, call MCI Electronics on 01324 611371 to…
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For those newer followers of MCI Electronics, we are a dog friendly office and we showcase an employee’s dog every month. This month, Miss October is Missy Moo, the Pomeranian with pomittude. The smallest of MCI’s dogs is definitely the boss of Steph and James’ house. She enjoys chasing pigeons…
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MCI were called out to a breakdown on this stone cutting CNC. The cables were badly damaged due to wear and tear in the machine’s energy chain. As a result, the machine was completely out of action. As you can see from our video clip, the machine is now back…
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This week MCI is celebrating the birthday of Robert Stevenson, engineer. He is said to be the greatest engineer of the 19th century, and dubbed ‘Father of the Railways’. He was most famous for inventing the Rocket, a locomotive that made its debut this month in 1829. It may not…
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To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
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Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers).
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs. There may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to