We’re teaming up with a group making every website accessible to everyone

Accessibility is fundamentally a civil right and while we have made significant milestones in making the physical world a more accessible place, online accessibility has been for the most part woefully neglected.

With the new brand and redesign of the website, we have partnered with the organization accessiBe. Their vision is to make the Internet accessible to people with disabilities by 2025. “By using automation rather than labor, the notion of a fully accessible internet (hundreds of millions of active websites and over 1.5 Billion in total) is for the first time ever a practical, attainable reality and not just a distant dream,” the company states. With that goal in mind, they have made more websites accessible in the last year alone than all other providers have in 10 years combined.

accessiBe utilizes two applications that together achieve full compliance. The accessibility interface is responsible for all the UI and design-related adjustments, while the AI-powered background process handles the more complex requirements – optimization for screen-readers and for keyboard navigation.

It enables website owners to serve users with a wide array of disabilities all in adherence to WCAG2.1 and worldwide legislation. Tools are available such as a screen-reader optimization for low-vision users. accessiBe’s first stable version took 18 months of daily development in collaboration with people with disabilities. That process still continues today. Blind people, motor and vision-impaired people, epileptics, and others are all a vital part of our research and development, according to the company.

You can learn more by visiting their website here. Let us know what you think of the accessiBe tool available on the Momentum websites.