BuyAway, the app, and this website, buyaway.snapops.cloud, are operated by Haim Elbaz, Israel. We are committed to making both usable by people with disabilities, in line with the Israeli Equal Rights for Persons with Disabilities Law (1998), the Equal Rights for Persons with Disabilities (Service Accessibility Adjustments) Regulations (2013) and Israeli Standard 5568, and with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 at Level AA, which is the standard IS 5568 adopts.
This statement covers the website and the BuyAway app for Android. It is reviewed at least once a year and whenever the site or the app changes in a way that affects accessibility.
Accessibility coordinator
Our accessibility coordinator is Haim Elbaz.
- Email: [email protected]
- Phone: +972 52-759-4449
Reporting a barrier
If any part of the site or the app does not work for you, tell us: write to the address above with the page or screen, what you were trying to do, and the device and assistive technology you were using, or call. We acknowledge every report within five working days, say what we will do about it, and fix what we can. If the barrier cannot be removed at once, we offer another way to do the same thing in the meantime.
If you believe a barrier has not been dealt with, you may also contact the Commission for Equal Rights of Persons with Disabilities at the Ministry of Justice.
Accessibility features of the website
- Skip to main content. The first thing the keyboard reaches on every page is a link that jumps past the navigation.
- Landmarks and structure. Every page is built from labelled regions (header, primary navigation, main content, footer) and a single heading outline that descends without skipping levels, so a screen reader can move through it by landmark or by heading.
- Keyboard. Every link, button and control can be reached with the Tab key and operated with Enter or Space, in reading order. Nothing requires a mouse, a hover or a gesture.
- Visible focus. The element that has keyboard focus is outlined in a colour that contrasts with its background, in both light and dark appearance.
- Text alternatives. Every image that carries meaning has a text description; purely decorative graphics, icons and the step numbers in “How it works” are hidden from assistive technology. The illustration of the app’s verdict screen on the front page is described in full as a single image.
- Colour and contrast. Text and background colours meet the WCAG 2.1 contrast minimums (4.5:1 for text, 3:1 for large text) in both light and dark appearance; information is never conveyed by colour alone.
- Resizing and reflow. The pages reflow to any width from a phone up and can be zoomed to 200% and beyond without loss of content or horizontal scrolling; text size follows the browser’s setting.
- Motion. Nothing plays, moves or advances on its own. The site honours the operating system’s “reduce motion” setting, and the accessibility toolbar can switch off every remaining transition.
- Language. Every page declares its language so screen readers pronounce it correctly.
- Links and buttons. Every link says where it goes, and links that share a name are told apart by an accessible label. Links in the text are underlined.
- Forms. The site has no forms. Where it asks you to act, it does so with a link (for example, the email link for requesting account deletion).
The accessibility toolbar
The round blue button in the bottom corner of every page opens a toolbar with eight adjustments. They are applied at once, remembered in your browser, and can be reset with one button:
- Larger text. Three steps, up to 150% of the normal size.
- High contrast. Black background, white text, yellow links.
- Underline links. Underlines every link, so links are not told apart by colour alone.
- Readable font. Replaces the site’s typeface with a plain sans-serif and widens letter and word spacing.
- More spacing. Increases line height and the space between paragraphs and list items.
- Stop motion. Stops every animation and transition on the page.
- Big cursor. Enlarges the mouse pointer.
- Highlight focus. Draws a thick outline around whatever has keyboard focus.
The toolbar is part of this site and is served from it; it does not load anything from a third party and does not send anything anywhere. It can be opened with the keyboard, closed with Escape, and is announced to screen readers as a dialog.
Accessibility features of the app
- Every icon, image and control has a label for the screen reader (TalkBack on Android), and the price on the tag, the converted price and the verdict are read as full sentences rather than as bare numbers.
- Every text field has a label that stays associated with it, and every error is read out next to the field it belongs to.
- The app respects the device’s text-size setting and its “remove animations” setting: with animations removed, the scan button’s glow and the background drift do not play.
- Colours meet the same contrast minimums as the site in both light and dark appearance, and a verdict is never conveyed by colour alone: it is always also written out.
- Every screen can be left with the system Back gesture or button, including the camera.
- The app is available in English, Hebrew (right to left), Russian and Spanish.
Known limitations
- Signing in with Google opens Google’s own consent page, which we do not control. Signing up with an email address and password is available as an alternative on the same screen.
- Reading a price tag requires the camera. Where a barcode or a label cannot be scanned, every product can also be found by typing its name or its barcode.
- Prices in the app come from third-party databases and from other travellers, and are shown as reported; where a figure is an estimate the app says so in words.
- The label reader recognises Latin script only; a label printed only in Hebrew is found by typing the name instead.
If you find a barrier not listed here, please tell us and it will be fixed.
How this was checked
The site was checked on 16 September 2026 against an external audit report (WCAG 2.1 AA and IS 5568), by reviewing the generated markup of every page for keyboard reachability and tab order, landmarks, heading order, text alternatives and link names, and by computing the contrast ratio of every text and background colour pair in use. The app is covered by automated checks in its test suite (screen-reader labels and tap-target sizes) that run before every release. We have not yet completed a full session with a screen reader on either; that is planned, and this statement will be updated when it is done.
Technologies
The site is built with HTML, CSS and JavaScript, and works without JavaScript except for the accessibility toolbar and the email-confirmation page. The app is built with Flutter for Android and uses the platform’s own accessibility services.
Updates to this statement
This statement was last updated on 16 September 2026 and is reviewed at least once a year.