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Accessibility andWHO's web site
Images courtesy of Flickr
Accessibility and WHO's web site | 2 Feb 20102 |
WHO's contextWHO's context
UN Convention for the rights of people with disabilities
WHO task force on disabilities: to make WHO more accessible to people with disabilities, and to mainstream disabilities in all our activities.
Accessibility and WHO's web site | 2 Feb 20103 |
Accessibility and WHO's web site | 2 Feb 20104 |
WHO's web publishing contextWHO's web publishing context
Accessibility and WHO's web site | 2 Feb 20105 |
How did we evaluate accessibility?How did we evaluate accessibility?
Hired an external company (Webcredible) to evaluate the site (2005)
Main focus was on visual impairment
The websites are tested against best practice guidelines
– the World-wide Web Consortium (W3C)– the company's in-house research
Accessibility and WHO's web site | 2 Feb 20106 |
Results – what was goodResults – what was good
WHO site offered reasonable accessibility
Where there were problems, tend to be the same throughout (i.e. wrong but consistent)
Some recurring problems were very simple to correct
Many changes have been made, not obvious to non-disabled users
Accessibility and WHO's web site | 2 Feb 20107 |
Results – what we have doneResults – what we have done
Alternative texts for images
Non-standard use of the web system (hardcoding)
Skip tags for screen readers
Transcripts of audio files
Training materials updated
Advocacy with users of the web publishing system
Woman lying on a sofa
These were difficult for
many screen readers
Accessibility and WHO's web site | 2 Feb 20108 |
Results – what we still need to fixResults – what we still need to fix
Home page – layout is table-based
Colour contrast (headings, links)
Resizable text
Accessible pdfs
Subtitling of videos
Writing for the Web – top pages are still very complicated and difficult
Accessibility training
Accessibility and WHO's web site | 2 Feb 20109 |
Everyone wins!Everyone wins!
Accessible site are easier for all
Non-disabled people
Search engines
Cross-browser compatibility