According to the Accessibility Foundation, which represents the disabled and chronically ill, shooting the accessibility of public still seriously short. However, the foundation improvements.
State Secretary Bijleveld receive Foundation report Accessibility Accessibility 2008 The Foundation presented the results Monday of the so-called Accessibility to Monitor State Secretary Ank Bijleveld of the Interior. The intense interest increased as a result of previous studies hundreds of national, provincial and municipal government under the microscope to see whether they meet accessibility. Especially sites of government would be improved, but provinces and municipalities, according to the foundation still needed work to be done: 8 and 2 percent respectively of the sites meet the minimum requirements.
According to accessibility guidelines of the government itself, sites increasing font support, working with color contrasts and text descriptions for images can give. In addition, they are compatible with devices such as Braille and screen readers, and they must also deal with different browsers can and easy access via search engines. State Secretary Bijleveld said the criticism of the foundation to have taken to heart and has reported that all governments in early December an agreement which will conclude at the end of 2010 all government directives must comply. Especially municipalities will be noted on their responsibility.
www.overheid.nl Compared with 2005, the insufficient number of accessible sites dropped from 96 to 88 percent, mainly due to improvements in the government and especially to sites of ministries. That dropped the percentage of sites with a lack of 85 to 54 percent. For national public Web sites accessible is insufficient share dropped from 93 to 75 percent. In municipal websites is no improvement observed: the percentage of sites that are still inadequate 98 percent.
Eric Velleman director of the Foundation says that the Accessibility especially unfamiliarity with the guidelines is that the degree of public access is so low. According to him there is too much attention to the appearance of the site, and is the low awareness of the user-friendliness.
State Secretary Bijleveld receive Foundation report Accessibility Accessibility 2008 The Foundation presented the results Monday of the so-called Accessibility to Monitor State Secretary Ank Bijleveld of the Interior. The intense interest increased as a result of previous studies hundreds of national, provincial and municipal government under the microscope to see whether they meet accessibility. Especially sites of government would be improved, but provinces and municipalities, according to the foundation still needed work to be done: 8 and 2 percent respectively of the sites meet the minimum requirements.
According to accessibility guidelines of the government itself, sites increasing font support, working with color contrasts and text descriptions for images can give. In addition, they are compatible with devices such as Braille and screen readers, and they must also deal with different browsers can and easy access via search engines. State Secretary Bijleveld said the criticism of the foundation to have taken to heart and has reported that all governments in early December an agreement which will conclude at the end of 2010 all government directives must comply. Especially municipalities will be noted on their responsibility.
www.overheid.nl Compared with 2005, the insufficient number of accessible sites dropped from 96 to 88 percent, mainly due to improvements in the government and especially to sites of ministries. That dropped the percentage of sites with a lack of 85 to 54 percent. For national public Web sites accessible is insufficient share dropped from 93 to 75 percent. In municipal websites is no improvement observed: the percentage of sites that are still inadequate 98 percent.
Eric Velleman director of the Foundation says that the Accessibility especially unfamiliarity with the guidelines is that the degree of public access is so low. According to him there is too much attention to the appearance of the site, and is the low awareness of the user-friendliness.
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