KT&G (CEO Min Young-jin) announced that it had acquired the Web Accessibility Certification Mark by redesigning its homepage (www.ktng.com) so that disabled and elderly people may use it with ease.   

The Web Accessibility Certification Mark (WA) is awarded by the Human Rights Forum for Persons with Disabilities in Korea to outstanding websites that prove easy accessibility for all people regardless of disability following stringent screening procedures pursuant to national standard guidelines.

With this redesign, KT&G inserted “alternative texts” for all the images on the homepage to ensure that visually impaired people can conveniently use the site by means of a screen reading program (Screen Reader), and that site visitors can navigate the menu with ease without operating a mouse, together with convenient functions such as providing subtitles for video content.

A KT&G official said, “KT&G has taken the lead in conducting social contribution activities for disabled and elderly people through the operation of a welfare foundation,” adding that “it will henceforward take the acquisition of this certification mark as an opportunity to make efforts to continue communicating with all customers without discrimination by expanding convenient functions to other sites linked to the company homepage.”