70% of recruitment sites cannot be used by blind people

Sapo opens laboratory at the University of Aveiro

The vast majority of sites belonging to recruitment companies are not accessible, so they leave out the visually impaired people who want to use this form of application for new job opportunities.

The conclusion is from the Integra21 initiative, which has recently tested the viability, for a blind person, of spending a week at home depending on electronic commerce to supply all basic needs.

In this new test, also supported by Vector21, the same blind person experimented with the main human resources recruitment sites, this time to test Accessibility on these pages that establish the first contact between companies and the job candidate, to avoid physical travel to the workplace. company to perform a simple registration.

The results of this analysis will be further detailed on the Vector21 website.

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