The eAccessibility patchwork
The situation across Europe for both eAccessibility status and eAccessibility policy is very much a patchwork at present. These patchworks present a picture of many important ‘white spaces’, of uneven attention across the spectrum of eAccessibility themes and of wide disparities across the Member States.
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The patchworks indicate that there are domains that currently provide no or only a very low level of eAccessibility in almost all EU countries (e.g. accessibility of commercial web sites, provision of access services by commercial broadcasters, self service terminals) and similar “white spaces” appear on the policy side. Such white spaces are a lot less visible in the three comparison countries.
The patchworks also show that the scores for eAccessibility for some ICT domains and for some eAccessibility policy themes tend to be higher than others. In relation to eAccessibility status, for example, the telephony, public broadcasting and computer domains tend to score better when compared with other domains, even if yet far from satisfactory.
Finally, there is wide variability across the Member States in overall eAccessibility status and policy scores, with very few countries achieving comparatively high scores across many ICT sectors or policy approaches.
