Social Security and National Health Fund are not always friendly with disabilities, but we can at least their websites meet the needs of blind and deaf. Association "Visibles" has launched a competition in which will be chosen the most accessible site.
Contest "Website Without Barriers" was organized by the Association Visibles Agora and the media under the auspices of the Polish Association of the Deaf, the Polish Association of the Blind and Amnesty International.
were closed list of participants of the first edition. Reported in 1974 Company (48) and public (25), among them: Social Security, National Health Fund, the Supreme Court, Ministry of Interior, and commercial participants Generali, BRE Bank, Polsat Foundation, AmRest, LPP. Services are fighting in two categories: the party of public administration and commercial side.
The competition will be decided after three services in each category.
- Disabled consultants so far dozens of audits of public administrations (...) are not in any way associated with IT professionals, because they do not play the role of experts carried out audits. During the audit service check from the viewpoint the average user, but of course in terms of their disability. The blind use of reading programs, Window Eyes and JAWS, visually impaired people use magnifying programs, and verify service deaf people to an understanding of texts (...) The second part involved an expert in the field of web accessibility (related to IT professionals) which checks the service, taking into account different levels of accessibility set out in the document WCAG. Combining expert analysis of the user experience, we get a complete picture of the availability of a website - Mila says Alexander the Invisible, explaining the rules of the competition.
Final competition to 26 March 2009 Announcement of results will precede the conference on "Disability in the network, which will be attended by representatives of the Ministry, the Polish Association of the Blind, the Polish Association of the Deaf, University of Silesia, Poznań City Hall, the Association of Integration.
Why all this? The introduction of the accessibility rules set by the W3C as recommended by the European Union, provides today, many groups with disabilities free access to information on the Internet. Keep in mind that blind, visually impaired, deaf, deaf, physically disabled and mentally represent 19% of the entire Polish population (according to the CSO, 2004) . Do not forget that providing websites for these people, we are enabling many people to participate actively in society, which is the basis for the equalization of opportunities in many areas of life.
Source: http://www.konkurs.widzialni.eu/
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