Kiva Corporation Becomes Club Partner of Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo - Supporting Local Sports through the Web Accessibility Tool "UniWeb

2025/06/30

Kiva Corporation (Head Office: Chuo-ku, Tokyo; President: Yuta Isozaki; hereinafter "Kiva"), provider of the web accessibility tool "UniWeb", has become a club partner of the Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo, a soccer club belonging to the J-League, and is pleased to announce that the web accessibility tool "UniWeb" has been installed in the official website of Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo.

 

■Background of Sponsor Appointment

Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo is a hometown club in Hokkaido and continues to energize the local community through soccer, and through this partnership we hope to contribute to the development of the club and help bring the appeal of soccer to as many people as possible through improved web accessibility, which led to this agreement.

 

■About future activities

In this partnership with Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo, "UniWeb" will be introduced to the official website of Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo to improve convenience for a variety of users, including the visually impaired and elderly, and to create new value through the fusion of sports and technology.

 

■Uniweb introduction site

Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo official site:https://www.consadole-sapporo.jp/

A UniWeb icon has been placed at the bottom left side of the page.

Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo Official Site

Clicking on the icon brings up the accessibility menu, which includes a partial reader that reads text out loud and screen contrast switching at the touch of a button.

Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo Official Site

 

In addition, an AI-based multilingual translation function has been implemented to allow users to more smoothly view content in their respective languages.

Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo Official Site

Click on "Settings" at the bottom of the menu and select the language icon at the top to have the information on the site automatically translated based on your preferred language.

Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo Official Site

The following three languages are available for translation.

• English
• Thai (language)
• Korean

 

■What is web accessibility

It means that "people with physical or mental functional limitations, such as the elderly or people with disabilities, can access and use information provided on the Web regardless of their age or physical condition." This is not a special accommodation only for people with disabilities or the elderly; anyone can be in the same situation as a person with disabilities.

• Temporary injury or illness (e.g., car accident with arm in cast and unable to use arm, eye disease with eye patch and blindness, etc.)
• Age-related vision loss (presbyopia, lens changes (yellowish, dark, blurred vision, etc.))
• Eye diseases common in middle-aged and older adults (cataracts, glaucoma, etc.)
  *About half of the patients in their late 70s have cataracts with yellowing changes.
• Age-related hearing loss
• Foreign travelers (if a foreigner who does not understand Japanese is struck by an earthquake while traveling, can he/she obtain evacuation information, etc.)

Reference: Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Accessibility of Websites, etc. Required of Public Organizations
https://www.soumu.go.jp/main_content/000543284.pdf

 

■About Uniweb

UniWeb provides web accessibility features "on the day of deployment" by simply adding a single line of code to all web services.

In order to achieve equal website services for all, we want to put users in various situations, such as those with visual impairments or those who temporarily lose the use of their hands due to injury, in a position to understand correct information through various uses such as voice reading and contrast changes.

 

About Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo

Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo is a professional soccer club based in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan.Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo was established in 1996 as the first professional sports team in Hokkaido, and won the J2 championship in 2016, the 20th anniversary of the club's establishment, and the J League YBC Lewan Cup runner-up title in 2019.As the only J League club in Hokkaido, the club is community-based and contributes to community revitalization through sports.

Management Company: Consadore Co.
Location: 1 Hitsujigaoka, Toyohira-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido
Representative: Hajime Ishimizu, President and Representative Director
URL:https://www.consadole-sapporo.jp/

 

About Kiva

Representative: Yuta Isozaki, President and Representative Director
Location : 3-12-5 Tsukiji, Chuo-ku, Tokyo +SHIFT TSUKIJI 7F
URL :https://kiva.co.jp/
Business :

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