The eAccessibility gap
From a comparative perspective, the eAccessibility situation for people with disabilities across Europe as a whole, in terms of both eAccessibility status and eAccessibility policy, compares very unfavourably with that of their peers in the comparison countries examined in the MeAC study (Australia, Canada and the United States). More generally, according to the status and policy yardsticks employed in the MeAC analysis, in absolute terms the overall European eAccessibility situation across the Member States must be assessed as being weak and even very weak in many respects.
Gaps in eAccessibility status (click on image for a larger view)
Gaps in eAccessibility policy (click on image for a larger view)
Although these ‘gaps’ show that Europe, as a whole, currently has a less well-developed eAccessibility situation in comparison to key international peers, they also show that it is neither unreasonable nor unrealistic to aim for a much stronger situation in Europe, given that this has already been achieved in the other countries (especially in the US) and in at least one EU country.
