Shutters have difficulty election websites

utrecht - Visually impaired have great difficulty with the websites of political parties, VoteMatch and Kieskompas. They are not easily accessible, claims advocacy Bartiméus.

One of the problems encountered blind and sighted, is that some parts of the websites can only be operated with a mouse. '' To be able to find information online, I use certain keys on my keyboard, which I can feel where they are supplemented by speech recognition software or Braille display. For example, the computer reads the information to me or converts them into Braille. If a website can only be operated with a mouse, I can therefore absolutely nothing, '' the blind Marjolein van den Broek explains in a statement.

An example: when Kieskompas the answers are not to choose a keyboard. That can not fill a blind the Electoral Compass. Impaired have trouble keeping some colors apart. '' That means that about 500 000 people are unable to use the dial hands, '' says the study.

According Bartiméus the VoteMatch has now adapted the site.