The
Danish National Library for the Blind (Nota) offers advise
on and impart knowledge about how to make the Internet and other electronic
services accessible for people with disabilities.
The vision is to make the information society available to everyone including people with disabilities. Many producers of electronic information services wrongly presume that the visually impaired do not use the Internet. But for the visually impaired the Internet has become a great possibility to reach information right at the source - or at least it has the potential.
To exploit this potential the designers of e.g. websites must take into account a set of measures to ensure an accessible product. It is not about making dull text-only versions. Almost anything is possible if only the accessibility perspective is taken into account during the development of the website or whatever digital product in question.
At Nota we give advise and impart knowledge about the principles for accessibility to webdesigners, webmasters and everyone else who might have an interest in making accessible digital products. We specialize in accessibility for the blind, visually impaired and others with reading disabilities.
We can:
Nota has invented a scale for the accessibility level of a website. When we make a test a website can score from zero to five guide dogs
| Zero guide dog | Impossible to access |
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Difficult to access |
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Less usable |
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Usable |
 |
Suitable |
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Excellent |
We base our advise and information on the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 - W3C Recommendation 5-May-1999". These guidelines are made by the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) under The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
For more information please contact:
webinfo@nota.nu
Phone: +45 3927 4444
IT-consultant: Christian Wallin 
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Webmaster: Jakob Bonde Rasmussen
