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.

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.

Funka’s CEO Susanna Laurin spoke about e-services that work for all at Norway’s Digitutvalget.

Funka consultants have been invited to help out with accessibility issues at Standard Norge, Norway’s standardization authority.

Funka has started cooperating with IQ Samhällsbyggnad - the Swedish Center for Innovation and Quality in the Built Environment – a new association founded in 2010.

Funka is developing a web-based educational platform for Norway’s Office of Building Technology and Administration (NOBTA).

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.

Over the next two years, Funka will study accessibility issues on 13 of Norway’s official government websites as well as intranets.

Funka offers tailor-made training sessions in accessibility and usability across Sweden and via distance learning over the Internet.

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.

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’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.

Together with representatives from Google, Malmö City and Valtech, Funka hosted a seminar about how statistics and analytics can improve a website.

Funka will hold its annual Accessibility Days conference on 18-19 April 2012 in Stockholm.

Funka demonstrated the importance of web accessibility at NOKIOS, Norway’s three-day annual IT conference for the public sector.

Funka participated in a panel discussion on accessibility at Norway’s biggest web conference, Webdagene.

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.

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.

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.

Funka is holding a seminar on web analysis and statistics in cooperation with experts from Google, Valtech and the city of Malmö.

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.

On August 31, Funka hosted its annual event to help Swedish municipalities improve their information flow, e-services and web-based processes.

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 is calling on its newsletter readers to help make cell phones more accessible.

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.

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?

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.

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.

One of Norway’s best known IT profiles, Shahzad Rana, has been added to Funka’s board of directors.

For the third year in a row, Funka gathered international and Swedish experts to discuss accessibility issues at the Accessibility Days 2011 conference.

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.

Educating children with disabilities can cost up to four times more than educating children without disabilities. But the return on the investment is high.

Funka will attend the "European Accessibility requirements in public procurement and ICT products and services" workshop on May 11, 2011 in Brussels.

Hafslund, one of Norway’s biggest power companies, chose Funka to train its web developers in accessibility issues.

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.

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.

Funka has examined how so-called dynamic forms can be made available in Adobe’s LiveCycle Designer software.

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.

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.

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.

A study by Funka found that 62 percent of Swedish government agencies, municipalities and other authorities are already using social media in their communication.