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MCI wish to congratulate, the scientists Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Aleksey Ekimov for winning the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their discovery and development of quantum dots on the 4th October. For those of you who are not familiar with quantum dots, they are semiconductor nanocrystals. The dots are only a…
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MCI was called out to look at a customer’s pastry making machine. Production had halted – no sausage rolls or steak bakes. Our engineer found the cause of the error and quickly went to work and repaired the machine in good time. The pastry machine was back producing savoury pastries…
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Today MCI has a history mystery for you. The 29th September 1913 was the date that Rudolf Diesel disappeared. As you can probably guess from the name, Rudolph Diesel was the inventor of the diesel internal combustion engine. He was a French – German engineer who wanted to create the…
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Today MCI takes a closer look at the working week as we celebrate the invention of the 5 day working week courtesy of Henry Ford this day in 1926. If you hate Mondays, think back to the turn of the 20th century when there wasn’t a weekend off. Henry Ford…
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MCI received a request from a fire safety company to update an existing control box. As you can see from the pictures, quite an improvement! Another happy customer. If you have any machinery or equipment that needs an electrical or electronic upgrade, call MCI on 01324 611371, to see how…
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This month, MCI is celebrating An Wang – the inventor of the magnetic pulse transfer controlling device which is related to computer memory. Without An Wang’s invention, we wouldn’t have the digital information technology that we have today. If you need a PLC recoded, give MCI a call on 01324…
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When MCI says the word CERN, most of you will think of a particle accelerator. Yes, today MCI wants to celebrate the Large Hadron Collider (“LHC”), the massive (and we really mean massive) particle accelerator that was started up on the 10 September 2008. Without this amazing piece of equipment,…
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Today MCI wants to celebrate the life of Elias Howe, the man who should be more celebrated for changing the way clothing is made. Frankly, without his inventions, you would most likely have your trousers round your ankles! His story has everything, tragedy and taking on the bad corporate big…
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We received these LEV units to repair from a customer that our friends at Bannatyne Filtration introduced us to. After MCI’s engineers had a look over them, they identified the issues. After a few replacement parts were fitted, the LEV units were back in action. If you are having problems…
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This week MCI wants to celebrate the birth of Mary Shelley, the author of the book ‘Frankenstein’. Famously, the book was conceived during a holiday in Switzerland with friends. The story goes that the weather was very poor and had prevented them from leaving the house most days. The group…
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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.
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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.
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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