SAP Drives Software Accessibility Standards

SAP India has announced its collaboration with Xavier’s Resource Centre for the Visually challenged (XRCVC) to launch Project Accessibility- a unique initiative to promote accessibility standards in enterprise software to facilitate employability of the differently-abled in the public and private sector.

To aid this project, SAP has set up a team to test SAP software for accessibility needs. The team will define and maintain the accessibility standards keeping in mind the needs of visually impaired, envisaging usage of software and performs internal accessibility technology assessments as per globally defined parameters.

SAP and XRCVC will jointly explore avenues for employment opportunities with SAP customers and ecosystem.

SAP cares about the needs of its customers and communities and is committed to make its products accessible to all, including differently-abled citizens. Said Peter Gartenberg, MD, SAP India “When given access to our applications, the visually challenged are an excellent talent pool for prospective employers.”

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