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11/2012
nexxar

Web Accessibility – a short overview.

Web accessibility is barrier-free design for the internet. Just like the concept of buildings and products being easily accessible by anyone (e.g. curb cuts, or pedestrian lights equipped with sound devices) there are measures that can be taken to avoid the impairment of usability on websites as much as possible. However, these measures are not limited to coding, but include (and actually start at) the conceptual design.

06/2012
nexxar

Der Geschäftsbericht als iPad-App.

Immer mehr Unternehmen bieten seit einigen Jahren mobile Tablet-Versionen ihrer Finanzberichte an – und zwar fast ausschließlich für Apples iPad. Solche Geschäftsberichts-Apps sind vor allem deshalb attraktiv, weil sie die Vorteile klassischer Print-Berichte mit den Vorzügen digitaler Formate kombinieren: sie sind unterwegs bzw. offline verwendbar, können bequem transportiert werden und nutzen im Idealfall gleichzeitig das komplette Spektrum hypertextueller, interaktiver und multimedialer Möglichkeiten, die man auch von modernen Online-Geschäftsberichten kennt.

07/2010
nexxar

German Online Annual Reports 2010.

Germany is historically one of the most important countries in our benchmark analysis. So we were a bit disappointed to see that the slight reversal trend back to PDF and JPG continued. Comparing this year´s data with the one of 2007 shows that especially companies which used to provide PDF only changed their way of reporting and offer their report as a JPG show now. In 2007 25% of all DAX reports were PDF only, this year there are 18,8% left whereas the stake of JPG shows rose from 15% back up to 26,3%. Another very interesting fact is that the count of companies offering an HTML version is nearly steady [43 in 2009, 42 in 2010], whereas the stake of Hybrid-reports [included in HTML in the graph below] fell from 6,3 % to 2,5%. This means that JPG shows win especially at the cost of PDF and Hybrid reports.

02/2010
nexxar

DAX Companies And Web-Optimized PDFs.

Use of the mobile internet is growing faster on a daily basis. More and more users access the internet from their mobile devices – think of smartphones, netbooks, iPhones and in the near future: iPads. In the mobile world, bandwidth is still an issue (unlike in the world of desktop-internet). It’s even more important therefore to keep down the filesize of PDFs that you want users to download from your website. It’s not too complicated to reduce file sizes without any quality loss e.g in images. You just have to do it.

09/2009
nexxar

Annual Report conceptualization.

There’s been a clear trend evolving over the last years: annual reports are no longer published as printed versions only. Our 2009 annual report survey finds that nearly half the companies listed in major European indices additionally provide a full-fledged HTML-version. This serves the needs of an ever growing share of their target group, which relies on the web to gather investor-relevant information.

08/2009
nexxar

Survey of CSR Reports online.

For the first time we made a benchmark survey on presentation of yearly published CSR reports in Germany. Out of 30 DAX companies 26 (87%) published a CSR report 2008. Analogue to our yearly survey on online annual reports we classified into 3 main categories: PDF, JPG-show or full HTML report.

06/2009
nexxar

Hosting: Flexibility is King!

The hosting of an online financial report is a key quality gate for the overall perception of your online reporting. Preconditions for engaging your users with your high end tools and online presentation range from simple high availability through useful analytic/statiscal tools up to complex security issues.