Suwon City Website Receives Perfect Score of 100 in Web Accessibility Evaluation by Ministry of Interior and Safety

[Suwon Ilbo=Seo Dong-young reporter] Suwon City's website (http://www.suwon.go.kr) received a perfect score of 100 in the web accessibility category in the '2019 Government and Public Institution Service Web Accessibility and Compatibility Level Assessment' conducted by the Ministry of Interior and Safety.

Web accessibility refers to ensuring that all users can access and equally utilize all information provided by a website without restrictions due to physical or environmental conditions.

The Ministry of Interior and Safety has annually evaluated websites of major government and public institutions since 2005 to create an environment where people with disabilities and the elderly can more conveniently use websites.

The National Information Society Agency conducted diagnostics on 420 websites from September to December, including those of central government agencies, local governments, educational offices, and public institutions.

'Web accessibility' is evaluated in four categories: ▲ease of perception ▲ease of operation ▲ease of comprehension ▲and robustness. Major evaluation criteria include 'provision of appropriate alternative text,' 'caption provision,' 'content recognition independent of color,' 'keyboard use guarantee,' and 'execution according to user requests.'

The city received consistently high evaluations across all categories, earning the highest score among basic municipal governments in Gyeonggi Province. The evaluation also reflected that the city received a 'web accessibility quality certification mark' from a national certification organization designated by the Ministry of Science and ICT.

Web accessibility quality certification is a system that grants a quality mark certifying the web accessibility level to excellent sites that comply with web accessibility standard guidelines. Suwon City renews its certification annually to maintain web accessibility quality.

A city official stated, "We launched our website in May 1996 and began web services in earnest," and added, "We will continuously improve areas that need strengthening so that anyone can comfortably use the city website."