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Posted: Thu, May 10, 2007
Welsh businesses 'should adopt accessibility'Firms in Wales should be doing more to make their websites more accessible to those finding it difficult to use the internet, it has been claimed.Author Charlie Duff claims the principality has some 80,000 blind or partially-sighted residents, so designing websites with accessibility is "well worth doing" for companies in the country. She goes on to say that using technology such as screen readers or eyetracking software is "clever stuff", but that designers should bear accessibility in mind from the conception of the site. Discovery, a student organisation that seeks to promote equality, told the paper: "Everyone has the right to know what education and opportunities they can access." Meanwhile, digital inclusion was the subject of a national conference last week. Addressing attendees, Stephen Timms, chief secretary to the Treasury, said technological change can create "major opportunities" to give previously excluded members of the public "the time, space and information to engage on their terms and for their purposes". 
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