As Poslovni Dnevnik/Darko Bicak writes, Hrvatska elektroprivreda (HEP) and the Association of the Blind (Zagreb) presented a special version of the HEP Supply website for customers of electricity provided by the household category “Hepi”, intended for blind and partially sighted people.
As HEP announced recently, the adaptation of their “Hepi” website is part of the project of the Association of the Blind called “A Network for All”, which aims to provide professional assistance to organisations that decide to adapt their websites to blind and partially sighted people.
The realisation of this project was made possible by a generous donation from HEP in the amount of 80,000 kuna, which procured sophisticated computer equipment needed for staff training and the testing of the necessary software solutions, the statement said.
The basic Hepi website and other subpages (Hepi Assistance, Families 3plus) have been adapted for this use. Additional fields for describing different images have also been programmed on the page, options for contrast for black and white text and the background, for the increase/decrease of font, for font for dyslexics etc have been introduced.
There are 17,371 registered persons in the Republic of Croatia whose cause of disability is blindness and significantly poor vision, of which almost 2,000 such individuals are totally blind and partially sighted in Zagreb and Zagreb County alone.
The President of the Management Board of HEP, Frane Barbaric, pointed out that HEP was guided in this new and praiseworthy project by the principle that all their customers have an equal right and opportunity to access their services, especially since this is represents a particularly vulnerable group of people.
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