1. Ieva Eskyte University of Leeds 11/25/2011

2. .. State responsibilities to identify and eliminate barriers to accessibility through minimum standards and guidelines, training, assistance and support... Article 9.2b requires States ‘To ensure private entities that offer facilities and services which are open or provided to the public take into account all aspects of accessibility for persons with disabilities’. 11/25/2011 Ieva Eskyte (ESR7) University of Leeds, UK

3. .. not simply about legislation and mechanisms of enforcement but also about understanding what works in practice... to understand best practice, and how to evaluate it... to understand what works in facilitating private sector engagement in the provision of equal opportunities to disabled people as consumers, beyond basic compliance. 11/25/2011 Ieva Eskyte (ESR7) University of Leeds, UK

4.  How do private sector providers adapt, negotiate or resist State interventions that promote or require accessibility rights?  What roles do private companies, State agencies and disabled people play in innovating and producing knowledge about what works in the private sector?  What impact do EU policies have and how does the situation compare in different European countries? 11/25/2011 Ieva Eskyte (ESR7) University of Leeds, UK

5. .. focus on mechanisms of accessible private services and goods: Universal design (supply) Legal regulations: EU, national level (supply) Non-discrimination legislation, Rights and Reasonable adjustment (demand); Consumers’ demand (demand)... use the following theories and approaches: The human rights approach to access to goods and services; Social justice in private market; Salutogenic approach; Capitalism; Humanitarian/ Compliance/ Citizenship/ Ecological approaches to private services and goods; Corporative responsibility; Social participation; J. Habermas’s communicative action theory. 11/25/2011 Ieva Eskyte (ESR7) University of Leeds, UK

6.  Form 3 studies.  Use document analysis method, Focus group method, ethnographical method, photographic methodology and ‘real experience’.  Include three countries: Poland, Lithuania, UK.  Focus on non-government organisations (of disabled people; for disabled people); private sector providers (producers, sellers); policy makers (EU and national level). 11/25/2011 Ieva Eskyte (ESR7) University of Leeds, UK

7.  What are the other ways to find out what works in practice?  How to enable private sector providers, disabled people and policy makers negotiate about their needs?  How to eliminate the prevailing tension between stakeholders?  How to reach private companies?  What are the other ways to identify the different patterns of disabled people as consumers depending on disabled people’ position, private sector providers’ position, and State policy.  What did I forget? 11/25/2011 Ieva Eskyte (ESR7) University of Leeds, UK

8. Ieva Eskyte i.eskyte@leeds.ac.uk University of Leeds 11/25/2011