Barrier-free web design with ECM technology FirstSpirit
At this year's CeBIT in Hannover the Dortmund software house, e-Spirit, presented an Enterprise Content Management technology that generates barrier-free Internet pages. The subject of "barrier-free web design" is gaining increased significance through the intensified efforts aimed at integrating people with disabilities, and the legislation that is going into force. e-Spirit showed some practical examples in this regard on the stand of its partner, IBM Germany, in Hall 4, booth A12 (demo point 35).
The Internet offers people with disabilities convenient and important possibilities to obtain information and to communicate. Given the prerequisite of appropriate input and output devices, ideally people with disabilities can access the same information as users without disabilities. However barrier-free design of the web sites in question is required. Different guidelines of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) have been present since 1999 in the form of "Web Accessibility Guidelines 1.0" (WCAG1) and these became part of the German Bundestag's Equal Opportunities for Disabled People Act 2002 in the "Barrier-free Information Technology Act (BITV).
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