Assessing accessibility of eGovernment services

Access for all to the Information Society is a key goal for the European Union. With increasing use of the World Wide Web – in particular for government information and services, it is essential to secure access for all citizens. Yet many people - especially those with a disability – meet barriers.

Page Evaluation and Benchmarking

Benchmarking can locate potential barriers and fuel the development towards Internet access for all.
eGovMon continues the work started by the European Internet Accessibility Observatory (EIAO) following up the large scale accessibility benchmarking service.

Furthermore an online evaluator, the eAccessibility Checker, is developed to support the testing and improvement of automatically testable accessibility issues in HTML and XHTML documents.
The eAccessibility Checker follows the Unified Web Evaluation Methodology 1.2 (UWEM) conforming to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (WCAG1.0).

Check a HTML/XHTML document with corresponding CSS for accessibility issues

Fill out the form or visit the eAccessibility Checker to learn more.

Check a document online
(e.g. http://www.egovmon.no)

Planned Activities

  • The eAccessibility Checker is currently being extended to allow evaluation of PDF documents.
  • Further translations of the eAccessibility Checker in addition to English and Norwegian. Join us and contribute by translating the eAccessibility Checker.
  • Development of a large scale benchmarking demonstrator.
  • Prepare more targeted reports to address the needs of developers or web site owners etc.
  • Enable the eAccessibility checker to evaluate according to WCAG 2.0.

Norwegian Legal background

There are two essential Norwegian laws that addresses aspects of accessibility and eGovernment: