The Wright Centers for Community Health and Graduate Medical Education is strengthening its commitment to digital accessibility through a partnership with TechA11y, a Pennsylvania-based provider of AI-powered technology.<\/p>\n
For individuals with disabilities, accessible digital resources can affect the ability to locate health information, learn about available programs and services, understand educational opportunities, access documents and media, and interact effectively with an organization online.<\/p>\n
Through the partnership, TechA11y has deployed its accessibility technology and services across The Wright Center\u2019s primary website and affiliated digital properties, including TheWrightCenter.org, HealthyMOMS.org, TheWrightGraduation.org, and other digital assets.<\/p>\n
The initiative also extends to The Wright Center\u2019s PDF documents and digital media, providing a more comprehensive approach to making online information and resources accessible to people of all abilities.<\/p>\n
For The Wright Center, the initiative reflects both a desire to address accessibility requirements and a broader commitment to ensuring that patients, families, learners and community members can access important information and digital resources without unnecessary barriers.<\/p>\n
\u201cAccess has always been central to the work of The Wright Center, and today that has to include digital access,\u201d Paul Krzywicki, executive director of marketing and communications at The Wright Center, said in a press release.<\/p>\n
Krzywicki said The Wright Center\u2019s websites and digital resources are important ways community members connect with the organization.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want those experiences to be welcoming and accessible to everyone. Our partnership with TechA11y gives us a continuous approach to improving accessibility as our digital content evolves,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Digital accessibility presents an ongoing challenge for organizations because websites and other digital resources are constantly changing. New pages are published, documents are uploaded, media is added, third-party components change, and users encounter content in different contexts.<\/p>\n
TechA11y\u2019s AI technology is designed to help organizations continuously monitor and improve digital accessibility and compliance. So,\u00a0rather than treating accessibility as a one-time project, the partnership establishes an ongoing accessibility program across The Wright Center\u2019s digital presence. TechA11y\u2019s infrastructure will monitor the websites for accessibility issues, generate and deploy remediation, respond to changing and dynamic web content, and document remediation activity over time.<\/p>\n
The engagement also includes accessibility remediation services for PDF documents and digital media.<\/p>\n
For TechA11y, the collaboration represents an important expansion into the healthcare sector and an opportunity to work with an enterprise whose mission strongly aligns with the principles of digital inclusion.<\/p>\n
\u201cDigital accessibility is ultimately about people. When someone is looking for health information, trying to understand available services, learning about a community program or simply trying to navigate an organization\u2019s website, disability should not be the reason they encounter a barrier, Kirk Uhler, CEO of TechA11y, said.<\/p>\n
For more information, visit TheWrightCenter.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Wright Centers for Community Health and Graduate Medical Education is strengthening its commitment to digital accessibility through…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[3099,3100,6487,1099,1057,7442,3078,201,182,803,2941,139,28,178,180,179,6799,181,4962,1481,2685,2943],"class_list":["post-308403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-carbondale","tag-carbondale-township","tag-covington-township","tag-dickson-city","tag-health","tag-honesdale","tag-jermyn","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-luzerne-county","tag-monroe-county","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-south-abington-township","tag-top-stories-stt","tag-tunkhannock","tag-wayne-county","tag-wilkes-barre","tag-wyoming-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}