Secure identity systems built to support national infrastructure and enterprise authentication needs.
Organize, govern, and leverage critical information with tools designed for compliance and performance.
Protect digital ecosystems with advanced defense layers, threat monitoring, and expert-led risk mitigation.
Secure identity systems built to support national infrastructure and enterprise authentication needs.
Organize, govern, and leverage critical information with tools designed for compliance and performance.
Protect digital ecosystems with advanced defense layers, threat monitoring, and expert-led risk mitigation.
RaulWalter has worked on dozens of technically and organizationally demanding projects that have supported the development of national identity solutions, improved data quality, strengthened system security, and shaped digital ecosystems across different regions of the world.
RaulWalter specializes in identity solutions for both public and private sector applications.
Raul Metsma is a senior architect at RaulWalter and one of the company’s most technically capable engineers, focusing on the development of large-scale eID systems, smartcard technologies, cryptographic protocols, and critical infrastructure components. He has more than 20 years of experience in software development, security technologies, and national information systems. He has played a central role in numerous projects that underpin the reliability and security of international identity solutions.
Raul has worked on eID ecosystem development since 2008, including ID-card drivers and middleware, new Digi-ID generations, implementation of out-of-band signing methods, development of WebExtension-based platforms, and smartcard and ePassport solutions for multiple countries. His work also covers remote processes such as applet updates, certificate renewal mechanisms, key management solutions, and remote-fix protocols.
In addition, Raul has contributed to several international projects, including cryptographic key management systems, identity card personalisation workflows, e-signature platforms, tachograph certification services, 3-D Secure ACS 2.0 solutions, and X-Road–based data exchange systems. His expertise has been critical in resolving major eID security incidents, including key- and certificate related vulnerabilities.
Raul has a strong academic background, having completed a master’s degree at Tallinn University of Technology cum laude, alongside a bachelor’s degree from the Estonian IT College. He is a certified Qt developer and proficient in multiple programming and systems technologies used in the development and maintenance of critical infrastructure.
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RaulWalter – Trusted Digital Infrastructure
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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