Nowadays, according to a recent study the cybercrime industry is set to be worth more than $10 trillion by 2025. With that, it is very crucial to consider protecting your data to ensure safety and security.
Also, privacy nowadays is hampered by the numerous tactics of every website while you’re browsing the Internet. That is why using and choosing the best Virtual Private Network can help you maintain security and prevent cyber threats. But, some people don’t know how to choose the best VPN for themselves and their customers. So, we’ve created a guide to help you choose a VPN.
Free VPN may sound great, right? But in reality, it isn’t as beneficial as you think. The majority of the free VPNs are not of great help because of their limited features.
As a matter of fact, a lot of free VPNs promised you to secure your personal information and data by keeping your browsing history private. However, they don’t protect you. Allowing you to use their VPNs for free might sometimes mean that they sell user’s data hampering your privacy instead of protecting it.
free VPN” might sound great, but the truth is that all companies need to make money to cover their costs. Some free VPNs do that with ads, some by selling their users’ data. Sometimes free means slower connection speed and fewer features.
Another common mistake is that users fail to assess whether their VPN is compatible with their devices or not. Because most of the users skip the assessment stage of VPN and devices, they end up paying for VPNs that aren’t suitable for their devices and their actual use.
To learn about VPN compatibility, you must check the manual of your router. If there’s no available manual, you may search it online. Simply search for the router’s name and type VPN compatibility.
To know more, you also ask our IT experts- here.
Another thing to consider before you purchase a VPN company’s service, you need to know the latter’s home country because its location may affect or compromise your privacy. The laws controlling such VPN can oblige them to get and store data to their authorities. With that, it’s essential to know first where your VPN is from.
With regards to the privacy policy, most VPN providers promised to have no logs. However, this isn’t the case. In fact, they at least keep your records or logs to maintain their service better. But there are instances where you want to keep everything private. That is why always ask and review the privacy policy of your VPN provider before availing of their services.
Now, the best part and also the most forgotten step is “asking an IT expert.” While many people can search for anything on the internet, it’s always best to ask an expert in a specific field. By asking, you will be guided on the needed steps and strategies you should make to ensure business security and growth.
If you want to know more about VPN, don’t hesitate to ask an expert. And you can always talk to us or contact ZZ Computer, an IT Los Angeles Company, about your IT concerns like VPNs and many more.
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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
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