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NCDA Board Resolution No. 13 Series 2008 on Web Accessibility

To promote equality when it comes to web accessibility, the National Council on Disability Affairs granted the Philippine Web Accessibility Group (PWAG) the right of becoming its deputy to assess the competency of government organization and NGO websites when it comes to web accessibility, especially for the disabled. On one assessment conducted by PWAG, only a staggering 11 GO websites and 33 NGO websites passed their criteria on web accessibility. This resolution was released with the sign of the Deputy Executive Director of NCDA, Mateo A. Lee Jr.

To address this issue, NCDA released Board Resolution No. 13 that grants PWAG to conduct website assessments of NCDA’s participating and member agencies and to enforce upon them the minimum requirements for the websites to become web accessible to the disabled.

The following actions were created to comply to the United Nations’ Article 9 regarding Accessibility, which states that people with disability should experience equality when it comes to access to information. A list of offices whose web accessible sites were evaluated by PWAG are listed on their official site, which includes but are not limited to the following: the House of Representatives, the National Council on Disability Affairs, the Department of Health, the Commission on Elections, and the Department of Justice.