Accessibility

Accessibility Statement

bennycigars.com · Issued September 28, 2026

Compliance Status

We firmly believe that the internet should be available and accessible to anyone and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the broadest possible audience, regardless of ability.

To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.2 (WCAG 2.2) 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 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 blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.

If you wish to contact the website’s owner please use the following email [email protected].

Screen-Reader and Keyboard Navigation

Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers can read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters the site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate the site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements:

  1. Screen-reader optimization: we run a 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 of the website’s images and provides an accurate, meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT tag for images that are not described, and extracts text embedded within images using OCR technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only 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 popular screen readers such as JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver, and TalkBack.
  2. Keyboard navigation optimization: the background process adjusts the website’s HTML and adds various behaviors using JavaScript to make the website operable by keyboard. This includes navigating with the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operating dropdowns with the arrow keys, closing them with Esc, triggering buttons and links with Enter, navigating between radio and checkbox elements with the arrow keys, and filling them with Spacebar or Enter. Keyboard users will also find content-skip menus available at any time by pressing Alt+2, or as the first element while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving keyboard focus toward them as soon as they appear and keeping focus from drifting outside. Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.

Disability Profiles Supported on Our Website

  • Epilepsy Safe Profile: enables people with epilepsy to safely use the website by eliminating the risk of seizures resulting from flashing or blinking animations and risky color combinations.
  • Vision Impaired Profile: adjusts the website so it is accessible to the majority of visual impairments such as degrading eyesight, tunnel vision, cataract, glaucoma, and others.
  • Cognitive Disability Profile: provides assistive features to help users with cognitive disabilities such as autism, dyslexia, CVA, and others focus on the essential elements more easily.
  • ADHD Friendly Profile: significantly reduces distractions and noise to help people with ADHD and neurodevelopmental disorders browse, read, and focus more easily.
  • Blind Users Profile (Screen-readers): adjusts the website to be compatible with screen-readers such as JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver, and TalkBack.
  • Keyboard Navigation Profile (Motor-Impaired): enables motor-impaired persons to operate the website using the Tab, Shift+Tab, and Enter keys, plus the shortcut keys noted above.

Additional UI, Design, and Readability Adjustments

  1. Font adjustments: users can increase and decrease size, change the family (type), and adjust spacing, alignment, line height, and more.
  2. Color adjustments: users can select various color-contrast profiles such as light, dark, inverted, and monochrome, and swap color schemes of titles, texts, and backgrounds with over seven coloring options.
  3. Animations: epileptic users can stop all running animations with the click of a button, including videos, GIFs, and CSS flashing transitions.
  4. Content highlighting: users can emphasize essential elements such as links and titles, or highlight focused or hovered elements only.
  5. Audio muting: users with hearing devices can mute the entire website instantly to avoid issues from automatic audio.
  6. Cognitive disorders: a search engine linked to Wikipedia and Wiktionary helps people with cognitive disorders decipher meanings of phrases, initials, slang, and others.
  7. Additional functions: users can change cursor color and size, use a printing mode, enable a virtual keyboard, and more.

Assistive Technology and Browser Compatibility

We aim to support as many browsers and assistive technologies as possible so users can choose the tools that fit them best, with as few limitations as possible. We support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share, including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera, and Microsoft Edge, plus JAWS and NVDA (screen readers), for both Windows and Mac users.

Notes, Comments, and Feedback

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 meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility as technology advances. If you wish to contact the website’s owner, please use the following email [email protected].