2011

 




 

EDF Toolkit on the EU Regulatory Framework for Electronic Communications Networks and Services (The Telecoms Package) (word)

The EDF Toolkit on the EU Regulatory Framework for Electronic Communications Networks and Services (The Telecoms Package) aims to support the efforts to bring a real change for persons with disabilities to equally access e-communications. The toolkit is primarily targeted at EDF member-organisations to enhance their capacity in following up on the transposition into national legislation and the implementation of the Telecoms Package.
The Telecoms Package should have been transposed by the 26th of May 2011. However, in 2012, it has been done by 7 EU Member States so far (Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Ireland, Malta, Sweden and United-Kingdom). In the other European countries, there is still a window of opportunity to ensure an adequate transposition and then implementation of the Telecoms Package and its disability-related provisions.
Please feel free to use the Toolkit for this purpose and to pass it along to any individuals who might be interested by it.
EDF Toolkit on the EU Regulatory Framework for Electronic Communications Networks and Services (The Telecoms Package, PDF


 

EU Smart Accessibility Awards

Source: Age-platform

In the week of the first EU Digital Assembly in Brussels, Vodafone Foundation is launching the Smart Accessibility Awards. This is a new competition to promote the development of IT applications designed to improve the lives of people with disabilities and older people to help them become more actively involved in society.  Launched in Brussels, the competition will award the best smartphone application across four different categories as follows: Social participation, Independent living, Mobility, Wellbeing


 Equal Access includes E-access

21 April 2011
EDF responded to the Commissions’ Public Consultation concerning the implementation of legislation governing electronic identification within the EU.

EDF Website

Commission’s website for the Digital Agenda for Europe

EDF answer to the Commission’s public consultation
Photo © Rachel Titiriga



Accessibility: how Social is the Social Media?

 
Over the past decade, through the rise of the internet and the expansion of the World Wide Web, our modes of communication have changed. New technologies and forms of communication have developed, impacting upon our networks and communities. Nowadays,social interactions are assisted via the social media, arguably engrossing our everyday lives. In light of these developments, what we would then like to know is how persons with disabilities use Social Media and whether or not such tools of communication are equally accessible to all those wishing to use them.
The European Disability Forum would like to invite you to join the debate over how accessible social media platforms such a Twitter and Facebook are.
Photo: ©JP Matth
European Disability Forum Website
Contact: Ewa.Pawlowska@edf-feph.org | +32 2 282 46 04
 

eAccess+

The disability movement is collaborating on the eAccess+ project:, which is a network to improve e-accessibility. It is funded by the European Commission/e-inclusion unit and supports the implementation of e-accessibility in Europe. This project aims at sharing knowledge and networking in order to provide accessible forms of communication.
 
Website of the project funded by the European Commission/e-inclusion unit
 
EDF website
EAccess+ project
 
 

2010




 

A Digital Agenda for Europe

Type of document: Communication from the Commission of the European Parliament, the Council, the European economic and social committee and the Committee of the Regions

 2005





 

E-accessibility

 
Type of document: Communication from the Commission to the Council, the European Parliament and the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions
 

 2001


eEurope 2002: Accessibility of Public Web Sites and their Content


Type of document: Communication from the Commission to the Council, the European Parliament and the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions.