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2003 > HANDICAPZÉRO, THE INTERNET FOR EVERYONE
[Summary]
An important issue is the need for information to be accessible to all.
Available online in September 2000, the website Handicapzéro became a
portal in February 2003 to offer an adapted access to information for
the French-speaking users having a visual problem, i.e. over 10% of the
population. Blind users can access the site using a Braille device or a
speech software. Visually impaired users can set up their own
parameters (size and type of fonts, color of background, etc.) to surf
the web in an optimal way, by creating and modifying their own visual
profile. Any user can correspond in Braille with blind users through
the website. 2 million visitors used the services of the portal in
2006. Handicapzero intends to demonstrate “that, with the respect of
some basic rules, the internet can finally become a space of freedom
for all.”
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An important issue is the need for information to be accessible to all,
as shown by the portal Handicapzéro launched in February 2003 for any
French-speaking user having a visual problem.
A first website was launched in September 2000 to provide an adapted
access to information for blind or visually impaired users, i.e. over
10% of the population. It quickly became the most visited adapted site
in France, with 10,000 visits per month.
In February 2003, Handicapzéro launched a portal providing free access
to national and international news in real time (in partnership with
Agence France-Presse), sports news (with the newspaper L’ Équipe), TV
programs (with the magazine Télérama), weather (with the service Météo
France) and a search engine (with Google), as well as a range of
services for health, employment, consumer goods, leisure, sports and
telephony.
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