Digital Accessibility Strategy: an introduction
Andrei Cucleschin, 05 September 2019
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Nowadays it has become increasingly important for businesses to ensure that their content complies to a digital accessibility strategy. Those strategies are made to improve the user experience for people with disabilities, such as hard-of-hearing or poor vision.
More precise rules and regulations are defined in the EU directive 2016/2102 and US Workforce Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Section 508. Although these rules are mandatory only on the governmental or federal level, individuals and businesses in the private sector are encouraged to adopt them to support the good cause.
Watch our webinar video, where our co-founder Thomas Dieste explains the implications of the legislation on the publication of video and audio. Moreover, in this webinar Thomas tells how modern technology, such as automatic speech recognition, can help in creating subtitles while staying within budget and tight deadlines.