HK Govt Strives to Improve Govt Web SitesThe government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) is committed to improving its web sites in order to make them more easily accessible by people with disabilities.It was stated by Lau Kam-hung, director of Information Technology Services of the Hong Kong SAR, Friday at the opening ceremony of a seminar on enhancing web accessibility. The seminar was organized by the Information Technology Services Department (ITSD) for practicing or amateur webmasters, web page designers and interested people. Lau informed the seminar that five government departments - the ITSD, Information Technology and Broadcasting Bureau (ITBB), Health and Welfare Bureau, Information Services Department and Home Affairs Bureau (HAB) - had taken the lead in revamping their web sites since early last year to facilitate people with disabilities to access their web sites. "The government has issued guidelines to all departments on how to improve the accessibility of their web sites," said Lau. "It is also the target of the government to revamp at least half of all government web sites by the end of this year, and the remainder by the end of next year," he said. In revamping their web sites, the five government departments worked closely with the Hong Kong Blind Union to enable the revamping work to be more comprehensive and acceptable to the users. To enable government departments to better revamp their web sites, an inter-departmental working group chaired by the HAB has agreed with the Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) on the mechanism to be adopted in future, taking into account the views of the EOC and non-government organizations representing people with disabilities. |
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