School of Engineering Website Received Gold Award in Web Accessibility Recognition Scheme 2022-2023
The School of Engineering received a Gold Award for its website (https://seng.hkust.edu.hk) in the Web Accessibility Recognition Scheme 2022-2023, recognizing the School’s effort in contributing to an accessible online world.
The scheme is organized by the Hong Kong Internet Registration Corporation Limited and co-organized by the Office of the Government Chief Information Officer, with the Equal Opportunities Commission as the independent advisor. It aims to promote digital inclusion in society by encouraging good practices of web accessibility design, enabling everyone to enjoy equal rights to access the digital world and operate internet applications.
To achieve “Gold Award” level in the scheme, organizations have to fulfill 27 judging criteria in their web accessibility design. These include structuring the website in a consistent navigation mechanism, making website content in a meaningful sequence and easy to be used with assistive technologies, allowing all operations to be performed through a keyboard interface, providing descriptive text alternative for images and text transcripts for videos, sufficient color contrast and text resizing function.
This is the second time that the School’s website won a Gold Award in the scheme.
About The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) (https://hkust.edu.hk/) is a world-class research intensive university that focuses on science, technology and business as well as humanities and social science. HKUST offers an international campus, and a holistic and interdisciplinary pedagogy to nurture well-rounded graduates with global vision, a strong entrepreneurial spirit and innovative thinking. Over 80% of our research work were rated “Internationally excellent” or “world leading” in the Research Assessment Exercise 2020 of Hong Kong’s University Grants Committee. We were ranked 3rd in Times Higher Education’s Young University Rankings 2022, and our graduates were ranked 23rd worldwide and among the best from universities from Asia in Global Employability University Ranking and Survey 2021.
