People with various handicaps (the blind, the color blind, the deaf, the visually impaired, the elderly, the motor disabled, etc.) constitute 20%-25% of the population.
In order to enable handicapped access to all parts of the Old City of Jerusalem website, the website was rendered accessible in accordance with most of the access directives customarily adhered to around the world: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2 at Level A. The following are a portion of the activities executed to render the website accessible:
- Providing textual alternatives for all non-textual elements.
- Providing textual alternatives for all Flash elements.
- Adjusting the website to font size change via the browser.
- Creating a site map.
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