The Visibles
We make from scratch web services which are accessible for the disabled and we show multimedia presentations to promote the idea of websites adapted for all those threatened with digital exclusion.
Also, we pursue our mission by training the creators and administrators of public administration's and commercial organisations' websites as well as the menagers and employees of IT departmens who intend to adapt the services which they create and run to the needs of the disabled, as stipulated in WAI.
"The Visibles" [Widzialni] project is aimed at drawing attention of both the public and the government to the problem of the access to the websites by the disabled, with special consideration of the blind and visually impaired, and at starting a national campaign promoting easy access of the disabled to public information on the Internet.
"The Visibles" is the only such initiative in Poland in which numerous organisations are involved, such as the Polish Association of the Blind [Polski Związek Niewidomych] - Silesian District and Polish Association of the Deaf [Polski Związek Głuchych] - National Executive, as well as experts in utility, accessibility, programming and graphics.
We carry out audits of accessibility and utility of web services of both public organisations and commercial enterprises and we provide assistance to adjust such services to the guidelines of W3C (World Wide Web Consortium, www.w3.org) and WAI (Web Accessibility Initiative, www.w3.org/WAI).
"The Visibles" project includes not only persons with sense organ disorders (sight, hearing), but also other social groups threatened with digital exclusion, i.e.:
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people with physical or mental disability,
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people with ADHD,
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dyslexics,
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people with colour vision deficiency (e.g. the colour-blind)
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poor people,
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communities of poor regions
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elderly people
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users of old-type computers
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users with slow Internet connections (modem, GPRS)
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users of text browsers or mobile hardware
"The Visibles" advocate the idea of equal access to web services as expressed in the goals of W3C organisation.
"To enable all people benefit from the Web regardless of their hardware, software, infrastructure, language, culture, geographical location, and mental or physical abilities".
We support the slogan "Don't make me think!" - the idea of creating intuitive www services - as it was expressed by Steve Krug, a world-renown expert in that field.
