Uniweb begins system partnership with the cloud EC site construction platform "Mercato"

2024/02/21

Kiva Inc. (Headquarters: Chuo-ku, Tokyo, CEO: Kota Nojiri, hereinafter referred to as Kiva), the provider of the web accessibility service "Uniweb", wishes to announce the start of a system partnership with A2J Inc. (Minato-ku, Tokyo, CEO: Mitsuhiro Iizawa, hereinafter referred to as A2J), which provides the cloud EC site construction platform "Mercato".

Through this collaboration,MercatoE-commerce operators using our service can implement web accessibility features on their EC site within just one day by signing up for Uniweb.

The web accessibility service "Uniweb" allows the elderly and disabled to easily select and change options like voice reading, contrast changes, and font size alterations, ensuring they can accurately understand information on the website.

In conjunction with the revised Act on Elimination of Disability Discrimination, effective April 1, 2024, various businesses across all industries are being asked to improve web accessibility. Since launching Uniweb last December, it has been implemented on over 115 websites within a month.

 

◾️Benefits of Introducing Uniweb

・Improvement of Customer Satisfaction
By ensuring that all users, including the elderly and people with disabilities, can accurately understand information on the website, it is possible to enhance usability and customer satisfaction.

・Gaining peace of mind and trust as a company
By demonstrating an attitude toward creating websites that take web accessibility into consideration, it can improve the company's image and enhance brand value as a trustworthy brand or company.

 

◾️What is Web Accessibility?

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

• 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 changes
• 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 supports 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.

 

◾️A2J Co., Ltd.

Representative: CEO Mitsuhiro Iizawa
Location: 8F Minami Aoyama DF Building, 2-2-8 Minami Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo
URL :https://www.atoj.co.jp/
Business Description: Content marketing support, EC site construction and operation, owned media implementation support.

 

◾️ Kiva Corporation

Representative: Kota Nojiri, President and Representative Director
Location : 3-12-5 Tsukiji, Chuo-ku, Tokyo +SHIFT TSUKIJI 7F
URL :https://kiva.co.jp/
Business :
・Development and operation of the reliable purchase guarantee service 'proteger' (https://hi.helloproteger.com/）
・Development and operation of web accessibility service 'Uniweb' (https://hellouniweb.com）