Workforce management news for staff and people management professionals, business owners, office, retail, and commercial property managers.
The application of recognition technology in the workplace is opening up a world of possibilities for managing more aspects of daily working life. As the business environment becomes tougher and work practices more flexible, such devices could make a critical difference to companies needing to manage staff activity costs and measure productivity levels more accurately….
Every organisation, regardless of size, has its own unique approach to payroll management, which encompasses all forms of payments to its employees and contractors. Compliance with mandatory and statutory and regulation is critical, and this involves ensuring that all payment and deduction inputs are aligned. As compliance regulations are subject to changes, managing payroll can…
Employee absence is a growing challenge for workforce managers in the UK. Whether from illness, stress, cars not starting, bad weather, childcare problems or absenteeism, the costs impact on the whole economy as well as the bottom line of individual businesses. The question is: how can employers manage down their unplanned absence rate and improve…
Investing in the right time and attendance solution, particularly in an organisation with complex work patterns such as shifts, overtime, time off in lieu etc, is one of the best ways to gain insight and a benchmark for your employee costs. To help you choose with more confidence a system that delivers all you need,…
On every UK banknote, there is still a written “promise to pay the bearer” its face value in gold, but it’s been redundant for a long time. How much longer will it be before even the idea of bearing a banknote is also consigned to history? Many obituaries have been written for cash as its…
From time to time, we receive questions from organisations about how implementing a time and attendance system that captures biometric data can align with the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Employers understand that GDPR has a wide-ranging effect on many aspects of their business. At first, many felt that GDPR legislation would…
Can your business boost profitability with a workforce management solution? Businesses face challenging times, and the economic environment isn’t likely to change any time soon. To cope, they are looking at ways to cut costs and manage their resources more efficiently; arguably the most valuable, and difficult, resources to manage are time and humans. To…
In a highly competitive and fast-changing global market, it has never been more important for companies to protect their profits by efficiently managing direct and indirect workforce costs. Time & Attendance (T&A) systems have a proven and demonstrable track record of delivering a significant return on investment (ROI) for a diverse range of businesses and organisations….
Winter has always presented a challenge for businesses in terms of staff shortages due to colds and flu. The widely reported dramatic increase in the number of sickness days taken recently because of the Delta and Omicron variants has, however, further underscored the need for businesses to upgrade their workforce management systems to ensure they…
Update: 14/12/2021 Synel will continue to operate within the guidelines and advice from the government. Many of our team members are working from home and available to remotely support our customers, and we can still visit sites to perform essential duties that cannot be conducted remotely and work with our customers to make sure that…
In a world where employees are increasingly being spread across a mix of office, home or remote locations and with many working flexitime shifts, more and more businesses are recognising the need to upgrade from a traditional workforce management system which has limited functionality, to a sophisticated future-proof solution which help them operate more efficiently….
Cloud-based Access Control as a Service (ACaaS) solutions are proving to be even more robust than conventional on-premises server systems, as well as offering cost savings and enhanced functionality. Managing your system from anywhere and at any time, reduced hardware costs, scalability and easy to implement upgrades, are just some of the reasons why you…
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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 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