Local government websites are visited by many people, regardless of age, disability, or individual ability. Web accessibility is important in order to ensure that websites are easy for everyone to use, understand, and find the information they are looking for without any hesitation. Text is also an important element in obtaining information on websites.
Website visitors view websites using a variety of devices and environments, so it is necessary to consider how all textual information in web content appears. A municipal website is user-friendly if the text is easy to understand, the sentences are easy to read, and they are difficult to misread.
Providing reasonable consideration and universal design for information in accordance with the Act on the Elimination of Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities
The Act on the Elimination of Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities, which came into effect in 2016, requires that reasonable accommodations be provided. There are many cases where consideration is required for information, and efforts must be made to make it easy to read and understand. To that end, we support the "UD approach to information" that conveys accurate information to many people through websites and other means, leading to a sustainable future.
Morisawa provides "UD fonts," which are designed to be easy to read for as many people as possible, based on the concept of universal design. Please use "UD fonts" on your local government website to help improve the accessibility of text. We would like to introduce "TypeSquare," a web font service that allows you to use "UD fonts" on your website.
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TypeSquare
At TypeSquare
We offer 32 families (275 typefaces) of "UD Fonts" including Mincho, Gothic, Maru Gothic, and design fonts, as well as Western fonts, Chinese fonts, Korean fonts, and multilingual fonts (Arabic, Thai, and Hindi).
It is a system that distributes fonts over the Internet and displays them in web browsers. Websites that use web fonts will display the typeface specified by the creator, even if the viewer does not have the specified font installed. They can be displayed not only on PCs, but also on web browsers on smartphones and tablet devices.
Not only can you use a wide variety of typeface designs, but the parts of your website that use web fonts are treated as complete text, which not only improves the searchability of your website, but also makes it easier to integrate with features such as machine translation and voice reading, allowing you to accurately convey the information you want to convey.
TypeSquare and CMS compatibility
Approximately 90% of local government websites use a CMS (content management system). CMS and web fonts are a great match, so we expect that UD fonts will become more widely used on local government websites in the future, along with the adoption of web fonts.
CMS implementation examples
Promoting social consideration through "letters" for a sustainable future
UD fonts were created based on three concepts: "Easy-to-understand character shapes," "Easy-to-read sentences," and "Difficult to misread." UD fonts accurately convey the feelings put into letters and sentences, helping to deliver information to everyone without leaving anyone behind.
Guided by its management philosophy of "contributing to society through writing," Morisawa will contribute to the creation of a sustainable society by addressing various social issues and working to resolve them in order to achieve the SDGs.