Learn more about Synel access control, cashless catering payment, absence management, biometric access control, registration, and visitor systems for schools and education management solutions in the UK and Europe.
Access control systems play a crucial role in schools… Ensuring the safety and security of educational premises is of paramount importance in today’s world. Access control systems have become indispensable tools, empowering schools and facility managers to establish a secure environment for students, staff, and authorised visitors. Access control systems play a crucial role in…
Synergy Workforce is an advanced workforce management software platform that contains various modules to deliver the perfect solution to organisations of all sizes. From small factories and warehouses employing just a few people, through to university campuses, healthcare facilities, retail stores and large office complexes, Synel provides customisable, scalable and easy to use systems which…
One of the UK’s leading providers of under 5’s education has invested in a future-proof Synergy Time & Attendance (T&A) solution from Synel to ensure it has a payroll system that will continue to meet its needs, regardless of how many people it employs across its fast-growing number of nurseries. Fennies provides nursery level education…
The latest update to Synel’s Synergy Workforce, formerly known as TimeLog Web, delivers further refinements to the user experience. The Synergy Workforce platform is designed to help businesses operate more efficiently and comes with a range of optional workforce activity modules. These can be used on-site or remotely by field-based employees, as well as those…
As well as a fresh new look, the latest version of Synergy Workforce, the new name for TimeLOG Web, delivers a host of new practical features which make it even easier for users to achieve maximum benefit from Synel’s workforce management solution. An all-new interface, which includes a redesigned menu structure and new shortcut icons,…
The latest update sees updates across the modules that make up Synel’s Workforce Management platform and continues the strategy for deeper integration with third-party technology as well as introducing a host of features which brings added functionality to both new and existing users. Version 3.6.7 will be automatically pushed to all hosted SaaS customers or…
The world began its journey towards becoming a cashless society almost a decade ago and the UK persists third in line – behind Canada and Sweden. In the UK, although a number of sectors – like retail – have managed to embrace card-based and digital forms of transactions, most schools and other educational institutions are…
Three main components make up an access control system: the physical barrier that restricts access into the building, the identification device which allows only authorised access, and the door control software that is used to decide who must gain access to which areas and during what hours of the day. How can such a system…
Purpose of Access Control in Educational Premises At its most basic level, access control is a system for enabling or preventing persons from entering or exiting a location – whether it is a website, room or a cupboard. Its secondary functions include recording any movement in and out of locations and providing data trails for…
It’s hard to convince your child to get up, get ready, and get to school! Yet school absence is extremely serious, and can even be considered a legal offence. All schools maintain an Admissions Register and all schools except boarding schools maintain an Attendance Register. As per The Registration (Pupil Registration) Regulations 2006, schools add…
UK is the third most cashless society in the world, after Canada and Sweden, which were found to be ahead of the trend in discarding cash. In the UK,41% of cards have contactless functionality, and British consumers own 1.48 debit cards per capita, pushing it to third place in the charts. As the nation goes cashless,…
Recently, health officials have said “Britain needs to go on a diet”, releasing new official calorie guidelines to help the nation lose weight. According to PHE, “too many children and most adults are overweight or obese, suffering consequences from bullying and low self-esteem in childhood, to type 2 diabetes, heart disease and some cancers as…
End of content
End of content
For a free assessment of your needs, please book a call to learn more about Synel’s advanced Workforce, Time & Attendance, and Access Control Systems…
Subscribe to our Synel UK newsletter — for workforce mangement news, time & attendance news, software updates, and special offers.
Synel Workforce Management Solutions & Access Control Systems
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 technical.support@syneluk.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 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 technical.support@syneluk.com