1. Achieving web-accessibility for disabled users AAATE Conference 1 st September 2009 Nadège Riche, EDF Policy Officer

2. European Disability Forum Who we are  Represents 50 million people with disabilities  Represents all types of disability  Umbrella organisation of disability organisations in the European Union  Organisation OF people with disabilities and not for disabled people  Our motto: Nothing about people with disabilities without people with disabilities

3. European Disability Forum What we do  Objective: to promote the rights of people with disabilities and fight against discrimination  At European and international level  Areas of work: non-discrimination, social affairs, education, health, EU funding, transport, tourism, built environment, ICT, standardisation,…

4. Accessing the web  Accessing the web is a human and fundamental right  Recognised by the UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities  Assessed by EU institutions  Access to the web means (e-)inclusion:  Access to independent living  Access to education, training and work  Access to public and private services  Access to leisure and culture  Access to communication and individual expression  Access to –civic- participation

5. Web-accessibility  Definition:  Access to mainstream websites by the widest possible number of people, regardless of their age and/or disabilities, in accordance with the concept of design for all/universal design  Development of assistive technologies as a complementary approach  Scope:  Public websites  Websites of entities that provide services of general services/basic services for the public  Private website  Intranet  Focus on new websites and functionalities

6. WCAG 2.0  Harmonised implementation of WCAG 2.0 over Europe  Developing evaluation and assessment methodology as well as conformity assessment methods  Third-party certification with automatic and human testing  Developing authoring tools incorporating accessibility requirements  Raising awareness and skills of people designing and producing websites

7. Nadège Riche EDF Policy Officer nadege.riche@edf-feph.org www.edf-feph.org