The New Face of the COMELEC Website
August 30, 2012
Fresh from winning their “PWD-friendly Website” Award at the 34th NDPR Week, COMELEC proudly launched their new website’s accessible features last August 15, 2012, in support of the “Fully Abled Nation’s” drive for disability-inclusive elections.
To fully access PWDs to local/global socio-economic opportunities and push their “RIGHT TO INFORMATION” called for in the “UN-Convention on the Rights of PWDs”, the National Council on Disability affairs (NCDA) in sync with the National Computer Center and the Philippine Web Accessibility Group (PWAG) hold workshops for web designers and awards agencies compliant to the set standards in the “NCDA-NCC Joint Circular on Web Accessibility”.
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- T Division Acting Chief Eden Bolo (left photo) presents with pride, the new face of COMELEC’s accessible website, shown on the above right photo.
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- Commissioner Rene Sarmiento cheers the IT Team lead by Ms. Eden Bolo, the force behind the website’s accessibility “makeover”
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- Beverly Hagerdorn Thaku, Int’l. Foundation on Electoral Systems IFES Chief of Party Commends NCDA, MCCID and COMELEC for they synergy. IFES hosted the Access Workshop for the COMELEC IT TEAM
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- PWAG Member Lourdes Borgonia proves the usability of accessible website even for blind users like her.
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- PWAG President Jojo Esposa briefs COMELEC officials and guests what makes a website accessble.
MAKE THE RIGHT TO INFORMATION REAL FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES
January 24, 2012
National Council on Disability Affairs (NCDA) Deputy Executive Director Mateo A. Lee, Jr. (3rd from left) presents a “PWD-Friendly Website Award” Certificate to Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Assistant Secretary Vilma B. Cabrera in recognition of the Department’s compliance to the Web Accessibility Standards set by the Philippine Website Accessibility Group represented by its President, Mr. Remberto I. Esposa, Jr. (Extreme Left) and the National Computer Center-Information and Communications Technology Office. The ceremony, which also served as the launching of the DSWD’S PWD-Accessible Website was held last January 20, 2012 at its Central Office. Others in photo include (from left to right) NCDA’s Project Evaluation Officer Reginaldo Tolentino, DSWD Officer-in-Charge of Management Information Systems Service Felino O. Castro V, and DSWD Webmaster Manuelito C. Bongabong.