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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
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Participants • Hiroshi Kawamura Director of the International and Information DepartmentsJapanese Society for Rehabilitation of Persons with Disabilities • Inmaculada Placencia Porrero Applications Relating to the Disabled and ElderlyInformation Society Directorate GeneralEuropean Commission • Judy Brewer Director, Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) • Moderator - Skip Crane (Forum Staff)
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
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)
European Policies and National Legislation (2 of 2) • The people with disabilities and their European representation: • European Disability Forum • http://www.edf-feph.org/
“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
“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
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/