transcosmos inc. hereby announces that the company has rolled out a web accessibility diagnostics & renovation service that ranges from performing a current status survey, defining the scope of renovation projects, developing necessary documents, to revamping the current websites to make all clients’ site visitors enjoy a more pleasant user experience.

The obligation for the private business sector to make endeavours to provide reasonable accommodation to remove social barriers under the Act for Eliminating Discrimination Against Persons with Disabilities (*1) will come into effect on June 4, 2024. Despite companies recognizing the importance of taking measures to make their official websites accessible for all, many find it hard to identify what they should do, and where to start to make it happen.
To help businesses overcome such challenges, transcosmos will offer its website accessibility diagnostics & renovation service, which covers two phases – diagnostics and development & operations. In the diagnostics phase, transcosmos will perform a current status survey on the client’s website, define the scope of the website renovation project, and create documents such as a guideline for website development. In the development & operations phase, transcosmos will not only renovate and evaluate the upgraded website, but also maintain enhanced web accessibility. With this website accessibility & renovation service, transcosmos will assist clients in solving their challenges from all aspects.

Diagnostics Phase
transcosmos experts in website analytics will conduct a survey using AMCC (Accessibility Management Checker Cloud) by InfoCreate Co., Ltd. (*2), a service that provides scores on current accessibility status. Based on the survey results, the team then defines the project scope, and creates a web accessibility guideline for the project, as well as a useful check sheet for developing the site.
Project duration: About two to three months * Subject to the volume of a website.
Price: Starts from 1,000 yen

Development & Operations Phase
Based on the results of the diagnostics phase, transcosmos team renovates your website. The team will evaluate the renovated website and the level of web accessibility based on the criteria defined at the diagnostics phase.
Making the most of its strengths as a leading website development company with a team of 2,600 web developers across Japan and abroad, transcosmos continues to offer website development and operations services, carry out renovation initiatives including web accessibility, and execute digital marketing strategies leveraging marketing automation tools. As a partner in driving clients’ digitization efforts, transcosmos will help clients further enhance their services.