Together for more digital accessibility. Without ifs and buts.
Digital media are there for everyone, but not everyone can use them. When it comes to accessibility, many people initially think of elevators, accessible rooms or traffic lights with acoustic signals. But what does accessibility mean in the age of digitalization? According to a study by Aktion Mensch on the usage behavior of people with disabilities, it means that people with disabilities can use the Internet, i.e. perceive, understand, navigate and interact. In its 2006 Convention on Human Rights, the United Nations even defines unhindered access to information and communication, which includes the Internet, as a fundamental human right.
At the same time, the internet and digital media offer the opportunity to overcome existing barriers that many people experience when communicating and interacting with each other. According to the Aktion Mensch study, people with disabilities use the internet more frequently than people without disabilities. According to the study, electronic interaction is particularly important because it enables access to certain services in the first place. However, there are also legal facts that should be considered when it comes to digital accessibility. However, the issue of digital accessibility now has a legal basis. Public institutions are already obliged to make their content digitally accessible. By 2025, other large areas of public and digital life will also be obliged to make websites and similar things accessible; the buzzword here is the European Accessibility Act.
What characterizes our history
The story behind Eye-Able® is shaped by Managing Director Oliver Greiner's personal experiences with people with disabilities. His best friend Lennart, who is now part of the team as a usability tester, has around 10% vision due to a genetic visual impairment. This gives Oliver a direct link to the problems that people with disabilities experience on websites every day. After his friend had to drop out of university because of his disability, he set himself the goal of finding a solution to the individual problems that people experience on websites every day.
What does digital accessibility mean?
A website is accessible if it can be found, accessed and used by people with disabilities without any particular difficulty and, in principle, without outside help. A person with a disability should therefore be able to use a website just as independently as a person without a disability. In Germany alone, almost 10 million people have a disability, but many more people benefit from simple and accessible websites. As a holistic provider of digital accessibility, Eye-Able® is the ideal partner for fulfilling these accessibility principles on your own website.
Our cooperation with institutes
We work closely with institutes such as the German Institute for the Blind in Würzburg and the Berufsförderwerk Würzburg. In this way, we have always been able to ensure that our software solutions really do help the people who need support. The inclusive development approach should also be mentioned here: Our solutions were developed together in close cooperation with the institutes and are constantly being optimized.
How we want to achieve our vision
Our vision: An Internet for all people
- Continuous research and further development
- Exchange with the community
- Workshops and lectures
- Fighters for more inclusion and digital participation
- Continuous research and further development
- Exchange with the community
- Workshops and lectures
- Fighters for more inclusion and digital participation
Users benefit from Eye-Able® services every month
Integrations in web interfaces
Years of experience in the field of digital accessibility
Users benefit from Eye-Able® services every month
Integrations in web interfaces
Years of experience in the field of digital accessibility
people a month use our software solutions.
FC St. Pauli
2nd German Bundesliga
FC St. Pauli is taking the next important step as part of the "Klartext" project. With the Eye Able assistance software, our homepage will be technically customizable by our visitors in the future.
With the step of making the FC St. Pauli homepage technically customizable, FC St. Pauli is taking the next important step in making its communication with fans and members more accessible.
Werder Bremen
1st German Bundesliga
Small symbol, big impact. SV Werder Bremen is improving the accessibility of its official website with the help of the "Eye-Able" assistance software. From now on, visitors to WERDER.DE can use over 25 functions via an icon on the right-hand side of the screen to adapt the website to their individual visual needs.
For example, the tool can be used to change contrast modes, set adaptive magnification or activate color filters. Werder fans with very different visual abilities can thus make better use of the site in an individually adapted way. 1.2 million people in Germany alone are considered to have impaired vision. A figure that is continuing to rise sharply due to an ageing society, among other things.
Archdiocese of Cologne
Largest diocese in Germany
The website of the Archdiocese of Cologne is now technically accessible. This applies to both the desktop view and the mobile application on smartphones and tablets. "The website was already barrier-free at the beginning of the 2000s. Now we have a situation in which we have achieved a high degree of technical accessibility," says Wolfgang Koch-Tien, IT officer at the Archdiocese of Cologne and responsible for the technical infrastructure of the websites. In the near future, the function will also be made available for many other websites of the archdiocese
FC St. Pauli
2nd German Bundesliga
FC St. Pauli is taking the next important step as part of the "Klartext" project. With the assistance software Eye Able, our homepage will be read by our visitors in future. visitors be technically customizable by our visitors.
With the step of making the FC St. Pauli homepage technically customizable, FC St. Pauli is taking the next important step in making its communication with fans and members more accessible.
Werder Bremen
1st German Bundesliga
Small symbol, big impact. SV Werder Bremen is improving the accessibility of its official website with the help of the "Eye-Able" assistance software. From now on Visitors to WERDER.DE can WERDER.DE can now use over 25 functions via an icon on the right-hand side of the screen to adapt the website to their individual visual needs.
For example, the tool can be used to change contrast modes, set adaptive magnification or activate color filters. Werder fans with very different visual abilities can thus make better use of the site in an individually adapted way. 1.2 million people in Germany alone are considered to have impaired vision. A figure that is continuing to rise sharply due to an ageing society, among other things.
