Gwilym Lewis, Kieon Consultant, discusses web accessibility and best worldwide practices in such field. This area remains one of ictQATAR’s priorities. ictQATAR aims to provide a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of visual, hearing, motor and cognitive impairments. The latest update on ictQATAR website aimed to elevate ictQATAR’s site from WAI “A” Compliance to a minimum of WAI “AA” Compliance as outlined in W3C’s Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) guidelines.
Working in close conjunction with the website’s developers, the upgrade featured a full review of the existing website code, updating items such as navigation links and alternative image names. Multimedia content will be accompanied by text descriptions to ensure that all users will be able to understand the audio or visual content, regardless of their impairments. Further upgrades were also made to the Content Management System used to maintain the site to ensure that all future content is “AA” accessible.

Duration : 0:15:21


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