Horizontal or co-ordinated eAccessibility measures
The Disability Act 2005 provides for the establishment of a Centre for Excellence in Universal Design within the National Disability Authority to promote best practice in the design of the environment and products so that they are accessible and usable for everyone, especially people with disabilities (Part 3 of the Act). It specifies the role of the centre, namely to
(a) support and assist in the development of standards of excellence by liaising with appropriate national and international standards bodies for this purpose,
(b) recommend those standards for adoption by bodies operating in the fields of information technology and telecommunications,
(c) encourage compliance by the bodies aforesaid with appropriate national and international standards in universal design, and
(d) provide information to those bodies in relation to the practical and theoretical aspects of supportive technologies.
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We are interested in receiving any corrections and/or additional information that may help us to update or improve our understanding of the current state of affairs in this country concerning eAccessibility policies that cut across different ICT domains in a horizontal and/or co-ordinated manner. This may concern information on relevant legislation, other policies and/or the level of accessibility actually achieved. Please enter your contribution in the “Leave a Reply” box below or send an e-mail to meac at empirica dot com.
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