What is "Infoaxia"?
"Info" means "information" in English, and "axia" means "value" in Greek. "Infoaxia" means "The information cannot be valuable without the accessibility". This is our concept.
Who we are.
Infoaxia, Inc. is a group of experts on web accessibility and web technology. In Japan, we have web content accessibility guidelines as a national standards(JIS X 8341-3). The company offers professional consulting, heuristic evaluation, user testing, training and technology solutions to help government agencies and major cooperations to make their web content accessible conforming to national and international standards.
Makoto Ueki, who is a founder and a president of Infoaxia, Inc., has been contributing the standardization of the web accessibility. He is a member of:
- W3C/WAI: WCAG working group (WCAG 2.0)
- JSA INSTAC: JIS working group (JIS X 8341-3)
What we can.
Infoaxia, Inc. helps the governmental/corporate websites to enhance their accessibility from the awareness to the practice.
- Evaluate your website accessibility.
- Conduct user testing with elderly people and people with disabilities.
- Establish the web content accessibility policy/guidelines for the organization.
- Train the staff through the in-house custom-made seminars.
- Provide the effective tools.
- Deliver web accessibility seminars. For example;
- Macromedia Japan Web Accessibility Seminar 2005 (with Bob Regan)
- Corporate Website Accessibility Seminar (by Universal Design Consortium) and so on.
Reports
Infoaxia has been introducing the conferences in U.S. to Japanese people(Japanese only).
About JIS X 8341-3
You can find "Guidelines for older persons and persons with disabilities - Information and communications equipment, software and services - Part 3: Web content"(JIS X8341-3).
- JIS X8341-3 English version
Note: Standard No. is "X8341-3". - Japanese Insustrial Standard of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and International Standard Harmonization by Takayuki WATANABE and Tatsuo Seki (CSUN 2005)
Contact
- Infoaxia, Inc.
- Valore Kichijoji 1-1009
2-3-15 Kichijojiminami-cho
Musashino-shi
Tokyo 180-0003 Japan
Tel: +81-422-76-8515 Fax: +81-422-76-8516
Infoaxia, Inc. (Japanese only)
Email: info@infoaxia.co.jp
