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its article 9 and 21 mentioned that the state should take necessary measures to promote access for persons with disabilities to new information and communications technologies and systems, including the internet.

The World Wide Web Consortium has also developed some technical guidelines, through which it is possible to create universally accessible and acceptable websites, he said.

The speakers also demanded that web portals must provide alternative texts, diagrams and flow charts to understand any image, and the texts must be in Bengali Unicode so that the contents can be understood even without downloading any other font.

In addition, there should be easy subtitles, transcripts and layouts.

According to them, since Bangladesh is committed to fulfilling the global goals by addressing the rights of persons with disabilities, web accessibility must be ensured to provide equal benefits to all citizens.

MJF executive director Shaheen Anam, University Grants Commission’s additional director Maksudur Rahman Bhuiyan, YPSA chief executive Md Arifur Rahman, and Centre for Disability in Development (CDD) executive director AHM Noman Khan, among others, spoke at the event.