What is "Infoaxia"?

"Info" means "information" in English, and "axia" means "value" in Greek. "Infoaxia" means "The information cannot be valuable without its accessibility". This is our concept.

Who we are.

Infoaxia, Inc. is a group of experts on web accessibility and web technology. In Japan, we have web content accessibility guidelines as a national standards(JIS X 8341-3). The company offers professional consulting, heuristic evaluation, user testing, training and technology solutions to help large companies to make their web content more accessible conforming to national and international standards.

Infoaxia, Inc. will enhance your accessibility by combining web accessibility with web standards and search engine optimization. We also balance accessibility with usability for your web sites and/or web applications.

Makoto Ueki, who is a founder and a president of Infoaxia, Inc., has been contributing the standardization of the web accessibility. He is a member of:

• W3C/WAI: WCAG working group (for WCAG 2.0)
• JSA INSTAC: JIS working group (JIS X 8341-3)

What we can.

Infoaxia, Inc. helps the corporate websites to enhance their accessibility from the awareness to the practice.

• Evaluate your website accessibility.
• Conduct user testing with elderly people and people with disabilities.
• Establish the web content accessibility policy/guidelines for your organization.
• Train the staff through the in-house custom-made trainings.
• Provide the effective tools.
• Deliver web accessibility seminars.

About JIS X 8341-3

You can find "Guidelines for older persons and persons with disabilities - Information and communications equipment, software and services - Part 3: Web content"(JIS X8341-3).

• JIS X8341-3:2004 English version
  Note: Standard No. is "X8341-3".
• Japanese Insustrial Standard of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and International Standard Harmonization by Takayuki WATANABE and Tatsuo Seki (CSUN 2005)

JIS Updates in 2009

Infoaxia is now working for JIS updates. "JIS X 8341-3:2009" will be harmonized with WCAG 2.0. It'll have 4 principles, 12 guidelines, and 3 levels of 61 Success Criteria from WCAG 2.0. JIS X 8341-3:2009 will be published in October 2009. "International harmonization" is one of our important missions.

Contact

Infoaxia, Inc.

PLAZA TOWER KACHIDOKI #3011
1-13-6 Kachidoki,
Chuo-ku,
Tokyo 104-0054 Japan
Tel: +81-3-5547-5777 Fax: +81-3-5547-5778
Infoaxia, Inc. (Japanese only)
Email: info@infoaxia.co.jp

Makoto UEKI

Web Accessibility Consultant,
JIS X 8341-3 working group,
Email: makoto.ueki@gmail.com