Unter dem Titel „Lasst uns gemeinsam ein Glücksbäumchen pflanzen“ stand die diesjährige Seniorenwoche des Blindenapostolates Südtirol im Blindenzentrum St. Raphael. Vom 11. bis 18. Januar 2025 waren wieder blinde und sehbehinderte Senioren aus ganz Südtirol im Blindenzentrum zu Gast, um eine Woche dem Alltag zu entfliehen, Freundschaften zu pflegen und…
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Man ist nur so alt wie man sich fühlt – Seniorenwoche für Junggebliebene Dies war das Motto der diesjährigen Seniorenwoche. Die Woche wurde im Sinne des Philosophen Ottfried Höffe, der sich mit dem Thema des Alterns intensiv auseinandersetzt und Autor des Buches „Die Hohe Kunst des Alterns“ ist, gestaltet. Er…
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Von Donnerstag, den 01. Mai bis Sonntag, den 04. Mai 2025 organisierte das Blindenapostolat Südtirol eine mehrtägige Städtereise für Jugendliche und junge Erwachsene. Der Einladung nach Bologna waren acht sehbehinderte bzw. blinde Teilnehmer/innen im Alter zwischen 22 und 33 Jahren aus ganz Südtirol gefolgt. Eine vollsehende Begleitperson komplettierte die insgesamt…
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Kastanienweg und Gemütlichkeit Am Sonntag, den 24. November 2024 folgten sieben sehbehinderte und blinde Menschen im Alter zwischen 19 und 40 Jahren der Einladung des Blindenapostolates Südtirol zum gemeinsamen Ausflug der Jugendgruppe. Ausflugsziel war der Kastanienrundweg im Dörfchen Völlan im Südtiroler Burggrafenamt. Gegen 10:00 Uhr trafen sich die Teilnehmenden im…
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Die diesjährige Internationale Begegnungswoche für Jugendliche und junge Erwachsene aus dem deutschen Sprachraum fand dieses Jahr in Tisens in Südtirol statt. “Genuss in Südtirol – Freude am Leben” „Die glücklichsten Menschen sind nicht die, die von allem das Beste haben, sondern die, die aus allem, was sie haben, das Beste…
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Lebens-wert Unsere jährliche Bildungs- und Freizeitwoche verbrachten wir vom 7. bis 13. August 2022 auf der Lichtenburg in Nals. Bei vielseitigen Vorträgen und Ausflügen gingen wir dem Thema „lebens-wert“ auf den Grund. Wir beschäftigten uns mit Fragen, die zum Nachdenken anregen, wie unter anderem „Was gilt für uns persönlich und…
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Samstag, 24.05.2025 – Anreise und erstes Eintauchen in eine reiche Kultur An der diesjährigen Kulturreise des Blindenapostolates Südtirol, die vom 24. Bis zum 31.05.2025 stattgefunden und nach Sizilien geführt hat, haben 36 Personen aus Südtirol, Nordtirol, Bayern und Württemberg teilgenommen. Die Reisegruppe startete früh morgens um 4.00 Uhr in Bozen,…
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Am Donnerstag, den 26. März 2026 um 14:30 Uhr organisiert das Blindenapostolat Südtirol, ein Bezirkstreffen der sehbehinderten und blinden Menschen aus dem Vinschgau. Wir treffen uns im Hotel Goldene Rose, Fußgängerzone 73, in Schlanders zu einem gemütlichen Kennenlernen bei Kaffee und Kuchen. Dieses Treffen ist eine gute Möglichkeit, um mit…
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To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
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Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers).
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs. There may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to info@blindenzentrum.bz.it