Opening Keynote
Keynote Speaker: I. Placencia-Porrero
Inmaculada Placencia Porrero is a Senior Expert in Disability and Inclusion at Directorate-General Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion at the European Commission. Her unit is responsible for the coordination of European policies for persons with disabilities. She works on European disability policies including the European Disability Strategy 2010-2020, and the EU implementation of the UNCRPD. Inmaculada holds a degree in Physics and Computer Science and worked in research and development before joining The European Commission in 1991. She has worked on research programmes addressing accessibility as well as assistive technologies and was Deputy Head of Unit for various disability-related units in the Commission. Her work in the “e-Inclusion” unit of the Directorate-General for Information Society and Media addressed accessibility policy. While at the Directorate-General for Justice she contributed to disability-related antidiscrimination legislation. She was responsible for the Task Force for the preparation of the European Accessibility Act and remains responsible since its adoption in 2015. Currently, under the Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs, and Inclusion, she is also leading the team working on the Strategy for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2021-2030. Recently, Ima got elected to the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
Titel: European Work on Accessibility
Outline: The presentation will start framing the EU work on accessibility in the context of the Un Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, introducing key concepts related to accessibility used in the EU legislative framework. It will provide a short overview of EU legislation on accessibility focusing on the European Accessibility Act (Directive 2019/882). A description of the main articles of the act, the related standardisation work and key support measures for its implementation will be provided. Finally some reflections on the development of accessibility policy and legislation will be shared.
Presentation Slides:
ICCHP accessibEU July 2024.pdf
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