accessibility in the international community
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Accessibility in the International Community. Participants. Hiroshi Kawamura Director of the International and Information Departments Japanese Society for Rehabilitation of Persons with Disabilities Inmaculada Placencia Porrero - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Accessibility in the International Community
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Participants
• Hiroshi KawamuraDirector of the International and Information DepartmentsJapanese Society for Rehabilitation of Persons with Disabilities
• Inmaculada Placencia PorreroApplications Relating to the Disabled and ElderlyInformation Society Directorate GeneralEuropean Commission
• Judy BrewerDirector, Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
• Moderator - Skip Crane (Forum Staff)
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The European Union, Member States, Institutions and Policies
• European versus National Disability policies and activities
• European research and development in Assistive Technologies
• e-Europe action plan
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European Policies and National Legislation (1 of 2)
• Amsterdam treaty, article 13: anti discrimination clause
• EU policies:(social, employment, transport, ICT …
• Key documents:– Barrier free Europe Communication
(http://europa.eu.int/comm/employment_social/soc-prot/disable/publications_en.htm)
– Council directive on equal access to employment (http://www.europa.eu.int/comm/employment_social/index/7003_en.html)
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European Policies and National Legislation (2 of 2)
• The people with disabilities and their European representation:
– European Disability Forum
– http://www.edf-feph.org/
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“European Research for People With Disabilities and Older
Persons” (1 of 2)
• Fame work programmes, COST, TIDE,
• Actual activities: IST 6 Frame work programmehttp/www.cordis.lu/ist/ka1/special_needs.htm
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“European Research for People With Disabilities and Older
Persons” (2 of 2)
• Thematic Priorities:
• Empowering technologies
• Barrier free technologies
• Instruments: integrated projects, networks of excellence, art 169
• International cooperation
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e-Europe Action Plan : A Policy Initiative in the Information Society
• Review of relevant legislation to conform to accessibility principles:
• Adoption of WAI guidelines
• Publication of Design for all standards
• Establish a Design for all network of excellence and creation of a European curriculum http://europa.eu.int/comm/information_society/eeurope/
index_en.htm
http://www.egroups.com/group/eeurope-pwd/