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In this course offered by the Federal Office of Information Technology, Systems and Telecommunication you will learn how images, graphics, diagrams and other graphic elements can be labelled in ways that are helpful to people with disabilities. You will learn how people with disabilities read a website, and how you can help to make your website more easily readable.
Disability categories and IT
Using the Internet may be difficult or impossible for people with a physical, mental or learning disability. The ways in which this makes working on the computer more difficult as well as the requirements to be met for people with disabilities to work on the computer vary depending on the disability.
Access for all
The "Access for All" Foundation is committed to facilitating access to information technology and promoting the use of technology adapted to people with disabilities. The Foundation liaises between the authorities, the persons concerned, organisations for people with disabilities, IT and service companies, research and teaching circles
Information society and e-Inclusionund e-Inclusion
No one in Switzerland should be deprived of access to our information society. To achieve this aim, the "Swiss Digital Integration" network and its action plan promote activities and initiatives benefiting senior citizens, people with disabilities and migrants.
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Barrier-free websites
The content of your website is ready. Now all you have to do is ensure that everyone can make the most of it! Is your website accessible to people with disabilities. The following checklist for barrier-free websites will help you make the necessary adjustments.© Post / Access for All
The Federal Chancellery and the Federal Office of Communications (OFCOM) have commissioned the “Access-for-All” Foundation to produce a checklist for the development of barrier-free websites. The checklist is used to assess the accessibility of existing websites. You and your web designers and developers should check your website to make sure it is barrier-free.
The checklist is based on the “Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, WCAG 2.0” and replaces the first version that was based on the WCAG 1.0.
Video: Accessibility Checkliste 2.0 (german)
The checklist is based on the “Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, WCAG 2.0” and replaces the first version that was based on the WCAG 1.0.
Video: Accessibility Checkliste 2.0 (german)
• Tool for analysing existing sites
• Basis for specifications
• Briefing und survey instrument for project managers
• Check “Yes”, “No” or “Not applicable” next to accessibility criteria
• Basis for specifications
• Briefing und survey instrument for project managers
• Check “Yes”, “No” or “Not applicable” next to accessibility criteria
• Original texts of the guidelines
• “Understanding”: detailed explanations to help you understand each criterion
• Practical examples: screenshots, code listings
• Links to test tools and to additional explanations
• “Understanding”: detailed explanations to help you understand each criterion
• Practical examples: screenshots, code listings
• Links to test tools and to additional explanations
Circulation and further use of this checklist with explanations is expressly permitted, provided the name, "AG Accessibility Checklist 2" is used, the reference address (URL) is specified, and circulation under similar conditions is stipulated (Licence Agreement Creative Commons BY SA).
When specifying the reference address, please do not provide direct links to the files, but a link to the download page.
In the case of revision, an specimen copy is requested. If you have suggestions or you have found an error, please inform the authors: checklist@access-for-all.ch.
When specifying the reference address, please do not provide direct links to the files, but a link to the download page.
In the case of revision, an specimen copy is requested. If you have suggestions or you have found an error, please inform the authors: checklist@access-for-all.ch.
