Wix to Offer Website Accessibility Enhancement Tools
The tools are a website-building upgrade for people with disabilities, not a replacement for existing screen reading technology
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Tel Aviv-headquartered website building platform Wix.com is planning to offer new free tools intended to help website owners make their websites more accessible to people with disabilities, the company said in an announcement.
Wix's Accessibility announcement
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A new tool offered by Wix describes images, icons, and emojis. Another tool the ability to further emphasize text and tools that make texts accessible to the visually impaired.
Wix's Accessibility announcement
The tools now offered by the website building company are not meant to replace existing screen reading technology such as speech synthesizers or refreshable braille displays, but to provide a platform upgrade for disabled users.
Over 70 million websites currently use Wix's service, which allows users to create HTML5 web and mobile sites through the use of online drag and drop tools.
Rival service Squarespace just updated their website yesterday to offer a more comprehensive guide for making their websites more accessible to people with disabilities.
