USI website accessibility

Accessibility means allowing users with special needs to experience a web site in an acceptable way. Several countries, in and outside Europe, have adopted a set of mandatory rules for making web sites accessible to a broader variety of users.
The W3C consortium supervising the WWW has issued a set of guidelines that need to be followed. However, these are not sufficient to guarantee optimal results in terms of understanding a site’s contents.

University of Lugano (USI) intends to promote in Ticino and Switzerland a stronger attention to disadvantaged users, by trying to make its own web communication increasingly accessible.

USI has been conducting for years advanced research in the field, and intends to transfer the results of this research on its web sites. In this way, with the active collaboration of interested users, USI strives to offer its users the best possible service, while also stimulating other institutions in Ticino and Switzerland to undertake a similar effort.
We have started by taking especially into account visually impaired users, and we mean to proceed with other user categories.

If you have any observations, critiques, or comments about the accessibility of this web site, please contact us: you will help us to offer a better service.

Your comments about the accessibility of this website are welcome. Please email your observations to web@usi.ch.