<Report> Web Accessibility Tools UniWeb exhibits for the first time at the SDGs x hands-on event "Smile the Earth Plaza 2025 Spring" hosted by TBS!

2025/05/21

~ UniWeb Barrier-Free Experience

Kiva Corporation (Headquartered in Chuo-ku, Tokyo; Yuta Isozaki, CEO; hereinafter "Kiva") exhibited for the first time at the SDGs x hands-on event "Smile for the Planet 2025 Spring" organized by TBS, calling for the realization of a society where people of all ages, disabilities, temporary injuries, and other conditions can use the Internet equally through a two-day event to experience the importance of accessibility.

Event Summary
Contents: Experiencing accessibility functions (color change, text enlargement, etc.), pseudo color weakness
Participation benefit: Sample products presented by sponsors

 

◾️ "UniWeb Barrier-Free Experience" Booth Details

The booth offered visitors the opportunity to try out UniWeb's web accessibility features, such as text size enlargement, color contrast change, and speech-to-speech functions, to help them become aware of "usability difficulties" and "information gaps" that are usually overlooked, attracting the interest of many visitors.

The children enjoyed the game and naturally became more interested in accessibility.

For parents, we also provided an easy-to-understand explanation of "what kind of people accessibility tools are useful for" through the introduction of UniWeb, helping them understand through hands-on experience that a website that can be used without stress even in situations with visual or operational limitations is designed to be friendly to all.

Many participants, especially families, commented that they were able to notice things they are not normally aware of, and that the event provided an opportunity to think about this with their children, making the event a place where they could realize the importance of accessibility.

In addition, participants were given sample products donated by sponsors as gifts, which were well received by many.

 

Barrier-Free Experience" at "Smile Earth Plaza 2025 Spring" (at Akasaka Sacas plaza)

 

 

◾️Off-campus study for elementary school students the day before the exhibit

Prior to its participation in "Smile Earth Plaza 2025 Spring," UniWeb held a field trip program for elementary school students on Friday, May 3, the day before the event, to give them an early taste of the experiences offered at the UniWeb booth from an educational perspective.

At the beginning of the class, the purpose of learning about accessibility and diversity was explained under the theme of "Think about a system that is friendly to all people," after which the children were asked to freely come up with ideas for a "system that is friendly to all people" and familiar examples such as Braille blocks and ramps were introduced.

The children made "simulated glasses" with red, blue, green, and yellow filters and played a color-guessing game, having fun while learning that color weakness is a common eye condition and that people see different colors in different ways.

In the latter half of the class, we expanded the discussion to the usability of digital devices such as smartphones and tablets that the children use on a daily basis, and had them actually experience the functions of the UniWeb using their tablets, such as enlarging text size, changing color schemes, and reading out loud functions, to realize that they are "happy functions" for someone different from themselves.

To conclude the field trip, we asked the children to reflect on today's experience and deepen their understanding by confirming, with specific examples, what a "user-friendly and easy-to-use system" was for everyone.

 

The UniWeb Out-of-School Learning Program

 

 

◾️What is Web Accessibility?

It is not a special accommodation for the disabled or the elderly, but anyone can be in the same situation as a person with a disability.

• 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.))
• Age-related hearing loss
• 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.
• 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.

We will continue to widely promote the importance of accessibility through exhibiting at events.

 

◾️ Kiva Corporation

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