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  • Funka to Present Guidelines in Paris | 2/14/2012
    As the Internet increasingly goes mobile on smart phones and tablet computers, special accessibility challenges are placed on existing websites. How’s the navigation? How’s the screen in the sunlight? Funka helps companies identify these and other challenges.
  • Senior citizens in focus | 2/10/2012
    Funka participated in the Senior Life fair at the Kista fairgrounds in Stockholm 8-10 February. The event focused on ways to increase the quality of life for senior citizens. Among the subjects discussed were services, technology, design and living standards.
  • Expert discussions in Norway | 2/2/2012
    Funka’s CEO Susanna Laurin spoke about e-services that work for all at Norway’s Digitutvalget.
  • Helping Norway with Standards | 1/26/2012
    Funka consultants have been invited to help out with accessibility issues at Standard Norge, Norway’s standardization authority.
  • Funka joins Construction Sector Forum | 1/10/2012
    Funka has started cooperating with IQ Samhällsbyggnad - the Swedish Center for Innovation and Quality in the Built Environment – a new association founded in 2010.
  • Prestige order in Norway | 12/30/2011
    Funka is developing a web-based educational platform for Norway’s Office of Building Technology and Administration (NOBTA).
  • The EU Commission chooses Funka | 12/21/2011
    The EU Commission has chosen Funka to be part of a consortum that will study levels of accessibility in 2012 in telecom, IT-systems, television, web and other communication forms.
  • Prestige order from Norway | 12/14/2011
    Over the next two years, Funka will study accessibility issues on 13 of Norway’s official government websites as well as intranets.
  • Training in focus | 11/29/2011
    Funka offers tailor-made training sessions in accessibility and usability across Sweden and via distance learning over the Internet.
  • Access to higher learning | 11/15/2011
    Funka is teaching students at the Stockholm University’s Department of Advertising and Public Relations about accessibility on the Internet, and how good design is a prerequisite for high accessibility.
  • Funka helps anti-discrimination body | 11/4/2011
    Norway’s LDO association, the equality and anti-discrimination ombud, has asked Funka for help in educating its staff about accessibility on the Internet.
  • Funka offers full or half-day courses in Accessibility 2.0 | 10/27/2011
    Funka’s offering: A tailor-made course in Accessibility 2.0 for your organization covering WCAG 2.0, HTML5, Aria, Flash and the best online communication solutions for text and pictures, among many other areas.
  • Higher quality through numbers | 10/19/2011
    Together with representatives from Google, Malmö City and Valtech, Funka hosted a seminar about how statistics and analytics can improve a website.
  • Funka Expands its Accessibility Days | 10/17/2011
    Funka will hold its annual Accessibility Days conference on 18-19 April 2012 in Stockholm.
  • Accessibility at Norwegian IT conference | 10/11/2011
    Funka demonstrated the importance of web accessibility at NOKIOS, Norway’s three-day annual IT conference for the public sector.
  • Web days in Oslo | 10/7/2011
    Funka participated in a panel discussion on accessibility at Norway’s biggest web conference, Webdagene.
  • Funka’s offer: Get it right from the start | 9/28/2011
    It can be costly and time consuming to remake a website that has been built the wrong way. Better to get it right from the start.
  • Funka at Norwegian Conference: “Good for business.” | 9/21/2011
    The main message from Funka at NOKIOS, Norway’s biggest IT conference in the public sector, was that making your website and systems accessible is good for your business.
  • Building a new website? Look no further than Funka | 9/15/2011
    Funka is known for its accessibility expertise. But in the last couple of years, this expertise has been increasingly parlayed into building original websites with accessibility built in.
  • Google and Funka: Seminar on statistics | 9/7/2011
    Funka is holding a seminar on web analysis and statistics in cooperation with experts from Google, Valtech and the city of Malmö.
  • Energy for all | 9/5/2011
    Funka has analyzed accessibility issues on the Swedish Energy Agency’s website, an organization which lobbies for sustainable and cost effective energy usage in Sweden.
  • The Municipality Project | 9/1/2011
    On August 31, Funka hosted its annual event to help Swedish municipalities improve their information flow, e-services and web-based processes.
  • Funka’s 2011 autumn seminars | 8/31/2011
    Funka is hosting three exciting seminars this autumn: How to lessen dependence on text in web communications, how to improve accessibility in internal systems and how to create accessible mobile platforms.
  • Funka asks readers for help | 8/24/2011
    Funka is calling on its newsletter readers to help make cell phones more accessible.
  • Boosting Minority Languages on the Web | 6/16/2011
    Funka has started a project aimed at helping Swedish municipalities with minority languages on their websites. A first meeting with officials was held in June.
  • Internal systems under the loupe | 6/15/2011
    That external websites and intranets should be accessible and user-friendly is almost a given. But what about other computer-based systems that are common in companies, such as business systems, project management and time reporting tools?
  • Norwegian seminar: Need for more accessibility | 6/13/2011
    Funka, speaking at a seminar on accessibility in Oslo in June, shed some the light on what criteria is used to evaluate levels of accessibility and showed how users are affected by new regulations.
  • Mission: Improve Accessibility in Smart Phones | 5/19/2011
    The Internet Fund, financed by the .SE foundation, has granted Funka funds to map, test, analyze and develop guidelines for Internet accessibility on smart phones and other mobile devices.
  • Norwegian IT profile joins Funka | 5/13/2011
    One of Norway’s best known IT profiles, Shahzad Rana, has been added to Funka’s board of directors.
  • Thumbs Up for Third Conference Accessibility Days | 5/9/2011
    For the third year in a row, Funka gathered international and Swedish experts to discuss accessibility issues at the Accessibility Days 2011 conference.
  • Norway schools – Deep dive into digital tools | 5/6/2011
    The Norwegian Association for the Blind and Partially Sighted, NABP, together with Funka will study how accessible Learning Management Systems (LMS) are in schools from elementary to university levels.
  • Paris conference: A good investment | 4/21/2011
    Educating children with disabilities can cost up to four times more than educating children without disabilities. But the return on the investment is high.
  • Brussels workshop | 4/13/2011
    Funka will attend the "European Accessibility requirements in public procurement and ICT products and services" workshop on May 11, 2011 in Brussels.
  • Hafslund chose Funka | 4/11/2011
    Hafslund, one of Norway’s biggest power companies, chose Funka to train its web developers in accessibility issues.
  • Google Translate: Not for official documents | 3/23/2011
    Together with the Language Council and with funding from the Internet Fund, Funka has examined how Google Translate works when integrated into authority and municipality websites.
  • International Speakers | 3/18/2011
    Fracesc Aragall from the Design for all Foundation in Barcelona will be one of the international speakers at Funka’s Accessibility Days to be held in Stockholm April 13 and 14.
  • Accessibility in LiveCycle Designer | 3/16/2011
    Funka has examined how so-called dynamic forms can be made available in Adobe’s LiveCycle Designer software.
  • EU on the Move Towards Procurement Standards | 3/14/2011
    Startup meetings have been held in Brussels for phase two (Mandate 376) of the EU Commission’s work to develop common standards for accessibility in public procurement procedures.
  • Measuring web access | 3/10/2011
    Improving accessibility on a company’s or an organization’s website can lead to more visitors, improved visitor satisfaction and, at the end of the day, increased revenues.
  • Taking the temperature on European e-accessibility | 3/7/2011
    In a project financed by the EU commisson, Funka has been asked to act as a technical expert on e-accessibility and to gather information about the status of e-accessibility in Sweden in 2010 and 2011.
  • Social media excludes many users | 3/2/2011
    A study by Funka found that 62 percent of Swedish government agencies, municipalities and other authorities are already using social media in their communication.
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