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„ECDL barrier free“- Accessibility for ICT Skills Certification. What are the goals?. provide accessible e-Learning material promote ICT qualification enhance ECDL Certification increase Employability generate public awareness. Target groups. Blind people visually handicapped people
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„ECDL barrier free“- Accessibility for ICT Skills Certification
What are the goals? • provide accessible e-Learning material • promote ICT qualification • enhance ECDL Certification • increase Employability • generate public awareness
Target groups • Blind people • visually handicapped people • Deaf people • audible handicapped people • mobile handicapped people • cognitive impairedpeople • Elder people • People with language problems (migrants)
What are we doing? • Design of interactive e-Learning System • „Design-for-All“ approach • .html and multimedia version • Roll out to 320 ECDL Test Centers • Train the trainers (>2000) • Establishing of a community • Information campaign • Public awareness
ECDL Process Certification Information Education • Accessible ECDL Website • Project website with Demo content • Recommended Test Centers • Qualification of IT Trainers and ECDL Testers • eLearning platform „Design for All“ • Standard ECDL Tests improved
ECDL Tests • MQTB • 1 Test fits all ! • Costumised assistive technology allowed • Deaf people, cognitive limited people • Simple language, short sentences • Logical structure • Blind and visually impaired people • Braille display and screenreader supported • Structure adopted (tables..)
PPP-Consortium • Patronance • Expertise • ECDL Network • Main Sponsor • E-Learning System
Switzerland • Switzerland adopted project • Support by Microsoft Switzerland • French Version • Italian version ECDL Switzerland AG
Project success – Awards and visibility • „Multimedia Staatspreis“ by Federal Ministry of Economics and Labour (Vienna) • Award for social contribution by ECDL Foundation • Best practice Project Microsoft EMEA (Munich) • Award for outstanding contribution by Microsoft (Redmond • Invitation to ministers conference by EU commission (Riga) • Invitation to UNO global conference on Youth and ICT (Geneva)
“Two of the participants who were visually impaired gave a very inspiring presentation on how ICT has helped them overcome their disability and open up new prospects for seeking employment, therefore giving further credibility and relevance to our story.“ Jan Muehlfeit, Chairman Microsoft Europe Global Forum on Youth and ICT for Development
Contact Thomas Geretschläger ECDL Management OCG- Austrian Computer Society Wollzeile 1-3, 1010 Wien, Austria tg@ecdl.at +43 1 512 02 35-56