Category: Managed IT Services for Small Businesses
ZZ Computer is a Los Angeles managed service provider specializing managed IT services for small businesses. We are personable and relatable to guide small business IT support matters regarding resilience of managed IT services. Our small business has providing IT service and IT support customized to small businesses’ specific information technology needs in Los Angeles since 1989.
We provide 24/7 managed IT service and support with one hour response times to incidents and requests. To help get started, we offer a free network and backup audit of new clients’ pre-existing solution(s). Our IT solutions comprehensively manage small business technology operations, including areas of:
Security (CyberSecurity)
Distributed Infrastructure; Cloud Computing & Storage, Virtualization
Network (Intranet and Internet) PBX Phone Systems
Microsoft Exchange Email Hosting
Digitization, Digitalization, Digital Transformation (DX)
Digital transformation is the transition of analog information–text, image, video, audio–into computer-based systems. Digital transformation is also the maintenance and modernization (upgrades) of computer-based (digital) systems. Transformations increase real-time distribution and centralization of information, and improve findability and accessibility of information. ZZ Computer offers comprehensive digital transformation service, including getting started with consultation for transition strategy and service.
Transitioning affects small business operations dependent on systems, requiring acclimation to new methods. Digitized information systems, known as information technology (IT), require technical expertise to integrate into small business operations. ZZ Computer provides full IT transition strategy and execution; consultation, installation, maintenance, and usage training. Our goal is to provide well-advised information of appropriate available options based on small business goals and conditions, and execute a safe strategy to fluently transition operations.
Continued advances in quantum mechanics continue to diversify how we may digitalize. ZZ Computer leverages advances of benefit to small businesses’ performance. We use the most appropriate and reliable technological advances to advantageously position small businesses in their industry and specific business needs. Computer System Backup & Recovery Service
Backup’s purpose is to proactively preserve a small business’s managed IT operations. Recovery’s purpose is to reactively restore system integrity in the event of managed IT service disruptions, using backups or attempting other restorative techniques. Managed IT service resilience methods and strategies mitigate disruptions a small business may encounter. Computer system backup support extends beyond storage, as we offer our own manufactured hardware to ensure reliability, and minimize downtime if computer system hardware needs replacement.
Within a business continuity plan, backup strategies are performed with consideration to allowable downtimes identified in a business impact analysis (BIA). As part of system architecture, backup procedures are integrated into the acquisition phase of the system design/development life cycle (SDLC). Our backup considerations include:
Geographic area: storage site’s risk-level and physical distance from the small business. Accessibility: availability & convenience of data; storage & retrieval time, flexibility. Security: ensuring encryption, shipping, handling, facility, and personnel meet the data’s security requirements. Environment: replicated/mirrored storage facilities’ structural and environmental conditions. Cost:
hardware replacements
back/recovery scale
retention length
replication count; snapshot/image frequency and amount
availability: storing/retrieval speed/convenience
special procedures, operational criteria
Recovery approaches are dependent upon the type of incident and system. Considerations include BIA/FIPS 199 impact level, and the system’s operational requirements. To support data’s availability, we employ:
Business Continuity of Managed Service
A small business’s continuity of critical operations dependent on managed IT services must be planned for. Assistance is available to ensure redundancy and resilience of IT operations through collaborative integration into the small business’s continuity plan (BCP). Supported components of managed IT service-related business continuity planning development include:
Business impact analysis: We assist conducting a business impact analysis of managed services. We collaboratively identify critical IT-reliant business functions and processes, accounting for the managed IT services that provide or support them. Critical business functions & processes: We aid in identifying, documenting, and implementing IT procedures to recover business operations reliant upon managed IT services. Small business continuity plan: We organize a business continuity development team to compile a plan that manages various types of known small business disruptions. Evaluate plan’s recovery strategies: Our training of the business continuity team. We’ll cover testing and exercises to evaluate plan’s recovery strategies’ viability. Information technology (IT) infrastructure: Our scope encompasses IT components comprising a system, including:
networks
servers
desktop and laptop computers
mobile devices
wireless devices and other IT peripherals
Disaster Recovery of Managed IT Services
An information technology disaster recovery plan (IT DRP) supporting managed IT services provided by ZZ Computer is developed simultaneously with the business continuity plan. Our business impact analysis determines priorities and recovery time objectives for information technology infrastructure. Technology recovery strategies dictate restoration procedures of hardware, applications, and data within business recovery constraints. Dependent managed services for consideration are all forms of IT delivery:
software as a service (SAAS)
platform as a service (PAAS)
infrastructure as a service (IAAS)
on-premises
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What is Managed IT Service and Why it is Important Hosting a technology department to support IT services is resource-consuming for small businesses. A viable solution is to outsource managed IT service tasks and responsibilities to a Managed Service Provider. MSPs offer industry-specific implementations, high availability, and comprehensive management. What is Managed IT Service Managed… Continue reading What is Managed IT Service & Why it’s important
Covid-19 has wreaked havoc on our lives, including our working setup. With that, ZZ Computer, a Los Angeles based IT Support & IT Services is here to tackle the things you need to consider before you dive into a working from home setup.
Accessibility
Accessibility modes
Epilepsy Safe Mode
Dampens color and removes blinks
This mode enables people with epilepsy to use the website safely by eliminating the risk of seizures that result from flashing or blinking animations and risky color combinations.
Visually Impaired Mode
Improves website's visuals
This mode adjusts the website for the convenience of users with visual impairments such as Degrading Eyesight, Tunnel Vision, Cataract, Glaucoma, and others.
Cognitive Disability Mode
Helps to focus on specific content
This mode provides different assistive options to help users with cognitive impairments such as Dyslexia, Autism, CVA, and others, to focus on the essential elements of the website more easily.
ADHD Friendly Mode
Reduces distractions and improve focus
This mode helps users with ADHD and Neurodevelopmental disorders to read, browse, and focus on the main website elements more easily while significantly reducing distractions.
Blindness Mode
Allows using the site with your screen-reader
This mode configures the website to be compatible with screen-readers such as JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver, and TalkBack. A screen-reader is software for blind users that is installed on a computer and smartphone, and websites must be compatible with it.
Online Dictionary
Readable Experience
Content Scaling
Default
Text Magnifier
Readable Font
Dyslexia Friendly
Highlight Titles
Highlight Links
Font Sizing
Default
Line Height
Default
Letter Spacing
Default
Left Aligned
Center Aligned
Right Aligned
Visually Pleasing Experience
Dark Contrast
Light Contrast
Monochrome
High Contrast
High Saturation
Low Saturation
Adjust Text Colors
Adjust Title Colors
Adjust Background Colors
Easy Orientation
Mute Sounds
Hide Images
Virtual Keyboard
Reading Guide
Stop Animations
Reading Mask
Highlight Hover
Highlight Focus
Big Dark Cursor
Big Light Cursor
Navigation Keys
Accessibility Statement
zzcomputer.com
December 21, 2024
Compliance status
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
Screen-reader and keyboard navigation
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.
Disability profiles supported in our website
Epilepsy Safe Mode: this profile enables people with epilepsy to use the website safely by eliminating the risk of seizures that result from flashing or blinking animations and risky color combinations.
Visually Impaired Mode: this mode adjusts the website for the convenience of users with visual impairments such as Degrading Eyesight, Tunnel Vision, Cataract, Glaucoma, and others.
Cognitive Disability Mode: this mode provides different assistive options to help users with cognitive impairments such as Dyslexia, Autism, CVA, and others, to focus on the essential elements of the website more easily.
ADHD Friendly Mode: this mode helps users with ADHD and Neurodevelopmental disorders to read, browse, and focus on the main website elements more easily while significantly reducing distractions.
Blindness Mode: this mode configures the website to be compatible with screen-readers such as JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver, and TalkBack. A screen-reader is software for blind users that is installed on a computer and smartphone, and websites must be compatible with it.
Keyboard Navigation Profile (Motor-Impaired): this profile enables motor-impaired persons to operate the website using the keyboard Tab, Shift+Tab, and the Enter keys. Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
Additional UI, design, and readability adjustments
Font adjustments – users, can increase and decrease its size, change its family (type), adjust the spacing, alignment, line height, and more.
Color adjustments – users can select various color contrast profiles such as light, dark, inverted, and monochrome. Additionally, users can swap color schemes of titles, texts, and backgrounds, with over 7 different coloring options.
Animations – epileptic users can stop all running animations with the click of a button. Animations controlled by the interface include videos, GIFs, and CSS flashing transitions.
Content highlighting – users can choose to emphasize important elements such as links and titles. They can also choose to highlight focused or hovered elements only.
Audio muting – users with hearing devices may experience headaches or other issues due to automatic audio playing. This option lets users mute the entire website instantly.
Cognitive disorders – we utilize a search engine that is linked to Wikipedia and Wiktionary, allowing people with cognitive disorders to decipher meanings of phrases, initials, slang, and others.
Additional functions – we provide users the option to change cursor color and size, use a printing mode, enable a virtual keyboard, and many other functions.
Browser and assistive technology compatibility
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.
Notes, comments, and feedback
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