The Municipality of the District of Lunenburg has made their website easier to use for people with disablities.
Communications officer for the MODL Sarah Kucharski says the website which is now live has solved some problems that others may overlook, “Colours are often used as something to aid in navigating sites but if you’re colour blind that can be an issue so now most colours have been removed and the text prompts are designed to be clear and obvious.”
“We’re committed to ensuring our website is as accessible as possible for all users,” says Mayor Carolyn Bolivar-Getson. “To achieve this, we worked with the Association of Municipal Administrators’ Municipal Website Venture, and the website was audited for barriers throughout the development process by the Canadian digital accessibility company, Access Changes Everything.”
Access Changes Everything conducted a full audit of the public facing website from March to May 2020. This audit was done throughout the website development process and included extensive manual and automated testing.
“Almost all the barriers noted in the audit report were either eliminated, or acceptable workarounds we suggested,” says Lisa Snider of Access Changes Everything. “However, there were some barriers that could not be fully eliminated. Some of these barriers were found in
third party vendor plug ins. Not all vendors, or developers, could make their product more accessible by the end of the audit period.
You can visit the new website here.