{"id":118778,"date":"2021-07-26T22:59:04","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T22:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/?p=118778"},"modified":"2021-07-26T22:59:04","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T22:59:04","slug":"the-internet-is-far-from-being-accessible-for-all-people-with-disabilities-advocate-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/politics\/the-internet-is-far-from-being-accessible-for-all-people-with-disabilities-advocate-says\/","title":{"rendered":"The internet is far from being accessible for all people with disabilities, advocate says"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>There has been slow improvement in increasing web accessibility for people with disabilities, according to accessiBe Chief Vision Officer Michael Hingson.<\/li>\n<li>&quot;The problem is most people aren&#x27;t aware of what needs to be done, even programmers, most don&#x27;t know what needs to be done,&quot; Hingson told CNBC.<\/li>\n<li>Hingson&#x27;s comments came on the 31st anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, which President Joe Biden commemorated in a speech at the White House on Monday.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>AccessiBe Chief Vision Officer Michael Hingson told CNBC on Monday there is significant need to make the internet more accessible for users who have visual impairments and other disabilities.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;There hasn&#x27;t been a lot of improvement. There&#x27;s been some,&quot; Hingson said&#x27; on &quot;The Exchange.&quot; &quot;The problem is most people aren&#x27;t aware of what needs to be done, even programmers, most don&#x27;t know what needs to be done,&quot; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Hingson&#x27;s comments came on the 31st anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, which President Joe Biden commemorated in a speech at the White House on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Accessible sites\u00a0use a multisensory approach and a multi-interactivity approach that allow users to absorb digital content through multiple senses like both sound and sight, according to\u00a0usability.gov, a resource for user experience guidelines run by the U.S. General Services Administration&#x27;s Technology Transformation Service. More than typical point-and-click services, accessible sites also have keyboard-based control and voice-based navigation abilities.<\/p>\n<p>At present, Hingson said one challenge to improving accessibility on the internet is simply its vastness. Hundreds of new websites are created every minute, he said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Websites are proliferating much faster than accessibility can even be made available to them, because it&#x27;s all usually done by manual programmers who do one website at a time,&quot; said Hingson, who is blind. He said accessiBe, which he joined earlier this year, tries to address the problem of scalability.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 2018 in Tel Aviv, Israel, accessiBe provides technology-based services to help websites meet accessibility standards for more than 110,000\u00a0global clients,\u00a0including\u00a0Porsche\u00a0and British Airways. The company has received\u00a0$28 million\u00a0through two separate funding rounds from K1 Investment Management, after seeing revenue more than triple during 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The company&#x27;s stated goal is to make the entire internet accessible by 2025. However, right now, the company says less than 2% of the 350 million active websites in the U.S. are considered accessible to people who have disabilities. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1 in 4 adults has a form of disability.<\/p>\n<p>This year accesiBe launched a search engine, called accessFind, that it says is the first &quot;for only accessible websites.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>There are many issues relating to access even on the &quot;most supposedly accessible sites,&quot; said Hingson, who wrote the book &quot;Thunder Dog: The True Story of a Blind Man, His Guide Dog, and the Triumph of Trust.&quot; Over the weekend, for example, Hingson said he tried to buy something on a major online website and &quot;all I found were links that went to images and there was no description of them.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/07\/26\/the-internet-is-far-from-being-accessible-for-all-people-with-disabilities-advocate-says.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been slow improvement in increasing web accessibility for people with disabilities, according to accessiBe Chief Vision Officer Michael Hingson. &quot;The problem is most [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":118777,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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