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Accessibility andWHO's web site

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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.


WHO's web publishing contextWHO's web publishing context


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


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


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


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


Everyone wins!Everyone wins!

Accessible site are easier for all

Non-disabled people

Search engines

Cross-browser compatibility

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