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Equalweb adapts websites to make them more accessible to people with disabilities
September 2, 2020
About 45 million people have some limitation on internet access —and the problem is not in the lack of broadband. They are people with some disability, especially visual or auditory, who need some help to surf the internet. But although Brazilian legislation requires websites to be inclusive, 99% of sites in Brazil have some barrier that makes navigation difficult, according to a study by the Web for All movement.
About 45 million people have some limitation on internet access —and the problem is not in the lack of broadband. They are people with some disability, especially visual or auditory, who need some help to surf the internet. But although Brazilian legislation requires websites to be inclusive, 99% of sites in Brazil have some barrier that makes navigation difficult, according to a study by the Web for All movement.
—Society is undergoing a digital transformation in this pandemic, but an important portion of society cannot be left out," says Andrea Schwarz, CEO of iigual, a traditional inclusion and diversity consultancy for the labor market, and which is bringing to Brazil the technology of Equalweb, an Israeli startup of accessibility solution for websites. In the U.S., a country of the lawsuit industry, sites with accessibility limitations are in the crosshairs of individuals or civil rights associations.. Last year, singer Beyonce was sued by a visually impaired woman for violating U.S. accessibility legislation because the Beyonce.com website had no tools for people with acute vision loss. The number of such lawsuits increased by 12% last year.
Equalweb is a cloud-based technology that works in an automated manner without interfering with the structure of the site. Features allow you to adapt the site to different types of disability and include font size, voice command, text reader, image description and color customization. Equalweb was founded six years ago and was recently selected by Microsoft in Israel for an artificial intelligence startup acceleration program for good. The technology is present on 10,000 websites in 35 languages. In Brazil, the first clients include Unisuam College. And Andrea is in advanced negotiations with a big bank.
Mélange is an organization that organize workshops, conferences and tradeshows in the Caribbean in the area of accessibility. EqualWeb is proud to co-operate and present at Mélange accessibility for all Magazine. Mélange is an organization that set up workshops, conferences and tradeshows in the Caribbean in the area of accessibility. Our shared goal is to raise awareness to the importance of inclusion people with disabilities in the Physical space and especially now also in the Digital space by using Equalweb’s Unique technology to turn any website fully usable to people with disabilities with a simple line of code.
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