Considerable progress has been made over the last decades in understanding the needs of people with disabilities and the aging population in the information society. Outstanding progress has been made in providing new Assistive Solutions providing first of all access to the standardized HCI and providing a huge potential for inclusion.
This potential addresses and challenges mainstream ICT to make products, systems and services accessible for these user groups and their AT and also here well elaborated recommendations, guidelines, standards, techniques and tools have been made available supporting the implementation of eAccessibility. But still the up-take and implementation of eAccessibility is lacking behind. The more the information society advances the bigger the gap seems to become. This session invites to contribute with papers addressing the uptake and transfer of eAccessibility know how into practice and how to foster the uptake of eAccessibility by all stakeholders. Papers might address issues as:
- analysis of the state of the art in eAccessibility implementation in different domains
- ideas and concepts to foster the uptake of eAccessibility
- stakeholder involvement along the full value chain
- benefits, risks and challenges in the uptake of eAccessibility
- education for eAccessibility
- technical, political, legal, economical, social barrieres and facilitators for eAccessibility take-up
Chair
Helen Petrie, Human Computer Interaction Research Group, Department of Computer Science, University of York, UK, helen.petrie@york.ac.uk.