Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 10 April 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at Local Level: Discussion

Ms Anna Shakespeare:

We acknowledge the poor findings on the accessibility of our website. We have reprocured for a website redesign and that is about to go live. The issue was that we carried a lot of PDF documentation on the website, which is a challenge for individuals, particularly those with visual impairment. We are actively working on that in 2024 as a project to improve it. We fully accept the findings from the NDA and we are implementing the required areas for improvement.

As the Deputy expressed an interest in the AIM programme, I will ask my colleague, Ms Goodman, to let her know more about the plans for 2024 and 2025 for the further development of AIM.