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A comfortable web experience for everyone

The Internet is an important place where anyone can conveniently access information and connect with others. However, slight differences in design and functionality can make it difficult for some people to use it smoothly, while others cannot.

Starting in April 2024, the Act on the Elimination of Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities will require companies and public institutions to provide reasonable accommodation, making web accessibility increasingly important.

Liberogic is committed to web accessibility, aiming to provide a web experience that is easy for everyone to use, and provides detailed support for structure, design, and coding in accordance with the international standards WCAG and JIS X 8341-3:2016, as well as the latest guidelines from the Digital Agency and the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.

Our corporate website complies with the accessibility standard WCAG2.2 AA and is operated by Torque.Accessible Website GalleryIt is also featured in!

Even if you think you understand the implementation technology as a creator, you can only imagine what people with disabilities are thinking, what they are worried about, and why they are in trouble.

As web accessibility professionals, we have been working to deepen our understanding by having all of our employees participate in "Dialogue in the Dark," a training program that allows participants to experience the world as a visually impaired person sees it.

Dialogue in the Dark

Have you ever seen something with anything other than your eyes?

Dialogue in the Dark is a form of social entertainment where participants are guided by a visually impaired person and experience various senses and communication other than sight in "100% pure darkness" where all light is completely blocked out.

https://did.dialogue.or.jp/

The program begins with choosing a white cane, which is carried by visually impaired people, and then participants use their senses other than sight in a pitch-black room, relying on the cane, to engage in a variety of experiences.

If you can't see, you can't judge the distance between you and the other person, and you can't grasp the size of your surroundings, so you don't know where you are and you're afraid you might bump into someone. It made me realize how much we rely on our vision in our daily lives.

And because vision was blocked, communication relied solely on voice. It was striking to see everyone naturally start calling out things like, "There's this over here," and "Be careful, it's dangerous!"

The members were surprised by this first-time experience and seemed to have gained many new insights and learned many things.

M-san
I have severe myopia, which makes everything blurry, but even if I can't make out the shape of an object or the letters, I can fill in the gaps with colors, etc. By experiencing a world with zero vision, I realized just how different it is to have good eyesight and to have no eyesight at all.

Mr. H
I thought that a white cane was just for recognizing tactile paving blocks and understanding space, but I was shocked to learn that you can even grasp texture by touching the ground or sliding the cane! I realized that a lot of information can be obtained not only through hearing but also through touch.

Mr. O
When I try to recall what was in the venue, I have a vague memory of seeing it even though I couldn't see it. I think this is because I'm remembering it as information obtained through my vision.

Through Dialogue in the Dark, I realized that not being able to see sharpens our senses, and the importance of communication.

There's actually a lot more I'd like to tell you, but please forgive me for not revealing any spoilers. I'd love for you all to try it out for yourself!

Until now, I had thought that "the importance of accessibility is increasing, so I guess there's a trend to incorporate it into web production as well," but I've now come to realize once again the importance and necessity of web accessibility, so I would like to use this experience to strive to provide a web experience that is easy to use for all users!