Digital
Accessibility Guide Launched

Muscat, 15 Apr (ONA) — The Ministry of Transport, Communications, and
Information Technology, represented by the National Program for Government
Digital Transformation “Tahawul,” today launched the Digital
Accessibility Guide.

The
initiative aims to enhance digital inclusion and ensure that services are
accessible to all segments of society, including people with disabilities and
the elderly.

The guide seeks to assist mobile application and website developers in adopting
practices that ensure all users can access and benefit from their applications
by implementing digital accessibility principles. It also focuses on enabling
institutions to design applications and websites that comply with digital
accessibility standards, reducing the costs associated with later accessibility
modifications.

The guide targets mobile application and website development teams and
supervisors in both the public and private sectors. This includes project
managers, user experience and interface designers, software developers, digital
content writers, digital accessibility specialists, and quality engineers. It
also serves as a reference for application owners who contract with developers,
as well as stakeholders in digital accessibility for people with disabilities,
senior management, and decision-makers.

The guide provides a set of instructions to help developers achieve digital
accessibility in mobile applications and websites and explains how to measure
their accessibility levels.

—Ends/AG