Barrier-Free Web Surfing

Monday April 13th, 2015

AS Watson Group (ASW) corporate website, and the website of the Group’s flagship local philanthropy programme “Hong Kong Students Sports Awards” received the Silver Award in “Web Accessibility Recognition Scheme 2015”, in recognition of the efforts in enhancing the user experience with a more user-friendly and accessible internet environment.

As a joint initiative of the Office of the Government Chief Information Officer and the Equal Opportunities Commission, the scheme aims to encourage web accessibility among organizations in various industries, and to recognise corporations that have demonstrated outstanding efforts in facilitating access to their websites and mobile applications.

ASW is committed to providing a barrier-free web environment, the design of our websites have taken into account the needs of people with disabilities, and conformed all 14 judging criteria listed under the Silver Category of the scheme, so that all users, with or without disabilities, can enjoy surfing our websites conveniently.