Adviser Amar Rajani has worked with Digitalis in recent years to help us transform our technology offering for our clients. Amar takes a few minutes to discuss how our enhanced technology solution is changing the way we support clients.
Tell us a bit about your background and how you came to work with Digitalis.
I started out almost 30 years ago in banking, where I developed an interest in the technology that helped inform investment decisions. This led me to Bloomberg, where I spent 17 years in sales and product specialisms.
It was when I left Bloomberg and started my own advisory business, Argella, that I met Digitalis’s CEO Dave King. We had a healthy discussion on how companies needed to evolve their technology to meet the needs of their clients. We agreed that Digitalis had an opportunity to transform its own internal technology, used by its Client Services team to support its clients, into a standalone software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering.
What does digital transformation mean for Digitalis?
Digitalis has spent over a decade building technology to help its clients manage online reputation and risk. Digital transformation for Digitalis means taking this technology and making it client-ready, enabling clients to self-serve. We’ve done this by taking data that relies on internal systems, processes and people, and delivering it in a readily-digestible way for clients. In this way, clients can use the software directly to find out what’s happening online that could affect their reputation or pose a risk to their business, without having to rely on technical experts to extract and translate that data for them.
Can technology replace people in managing online reputational risk?
Technology can help identify and support online reputation management and risk. While many firms rely on technology alone for online and media monitoring, there are huge benefits in using skilled and experienced professionals to interpret the data and signals. A professional reputation management service can help you identify what is important, analyse the potential risk, determine ways to overcome the problem, and measure success.
What makes Digitalis so unique?
One of the biggest challenges I see when I look at the use of technology in solving problems is that it often falls short at the final hurdle. Technology can identify the problem, but it doesn’t tell you how to solve it. The team at Digitalis use technology to identify the problem, and then use professional expertise to find ways to solve for it, even when there is not an easy fix.
Finally, for me, the people and culture are such an important part of an organisation. The team at Digitalis is truly a fantastic bunch of people with a passion for what they do, and the culture is innovative and professional. I look forward to the continued transformation of their digital offering in the coming years, and to being part of that.
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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 widest possible audience, regardless of circumstance and ability.
To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (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.
If you’ve found a malfunction or have ideas for improvement, we’ll be happy to hear from you. You can reach out to the website’s operators by using the following email webrequests@digitalis.com
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 of 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 of 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), both for Windows and for MAC users.
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 webrequests@digitalis.com