World Standards Day 2010 Conference. Brussels, 12 October 2010

This year, the Conference was devoted to the discussion of the development of accessibility standards and the mainstreaming of "Design for All" in the development of standards.

Conference recordings

Please find below links to recordings of the above mentioned event.

http://scic.ec.europa.eu/str/index.php?sessionno=297fa7777981f402dbba17e9f29e292d

• Opening: Ms Liliana Brykman, Mr Edvard Kožušnik, Ms Lara Comi
• Session "How to use standards to foster accessibility": Ms Belinda Pyke, Ms Ima Placencia, Mr Walter Weigel, Ms Tania Marcos, Ms Carlotta Besozzi

http://scic.ec.europa.eu/str/index.php?sessionno=f60bb6bb4c96d4df93c51bd69dcc15a0

• Round table "Is industry responding to accessibility demands?": Mr Daniel Bunch, Mr Ken Salaets, Mr Ulrich Paetzold, Ms Chiarra Giovannini, Mr Martin Prager, Ms Charlotte Mosies

http://scic.ec.europa.eu/str/index.php?sessionno=d1dc3a8270a6f9394f88847d7f0050cf

• Round table "How can accessibility standards be harmonised globally?": Ms Renate Weissenhorn, Ms Ileana Martinez, Ms Anne-Sophie Parent, Mr Adrian Harris, Mr Ernst-Peter Ziethen
• Video "Nuovi standards per un turismo accessibile universale" (New standards for universally accessible tourism): Mr Paolo Berro
• Closing address: Mr Malcolm Harbour, Mr Antonio Tajani

Conference programme [43 KB]

Conference presentations

• Ms Liliana Brykman, European Commission, Directorate-General for Enterprise and Industry, Opening address [25 KB]
• Mr Edvard Kožušnik, Member of European Parliament, Standardisation: a key enabler for accessibility [31 KB]
• Ms Lara Comi, Member of European Parliament, The challenges for European standardisation [19 KB]
• Ms Ima Placencia, European Commission, Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities, EU Standardisation work on accessibility [77 KB]
• Mr Walter Weigel, European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), Standardisation supporting industry to deliver accessibility [206 KB]
• Ms Tania Marcos, Spanish Association for Standardisation and Certification (AENOR), National accessibility and standardisation efforts [2 MB]
• Mr Ken Salaets, Information Technology Industry Council (ITI), Standards, Accessibility and ICT Innovation [60 KB]
• Ms Chiara Giovannini, European Association for the Co-ordination of Consumer Representation in Standardisation (ANEC), Are standards meeting consumer expectations? [121 KB]
• Mr. Martin Prager, European Office of Crafts, Trades and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises for Standardisation (NORMAPME), Standards for Accessibility: opportunities and challenges for European SMEs [793 KB]
• Ms Charlotte Mosies, The Netherlands Standardization Institute (NEN), Training of users and standardisers on accessibility for all and standardisation [58 KB]
• Ms Ileana Martinez, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Bringing coherence in accessibility standards to global markets [605 KB]
• Ms Anne-Sophie Parent, AGE Platform Europe, The importance of harmonised accessibility standards in the context of rapid demographic change, economic crisis and budget consolidation [67 KB]
• Mr Adrian Harris, European Engineering Industries Association (ORGALIME), Harmonisation of accessibility to facilitate business for SMEs [3 MB]
• Mr Ernst-Peter Ziethen, European Committee for Standardisation (CEN), The influence of European standards on harmonisation of accessibility markets [2 MB]
• Mr Paolo Berro, Accessibility Specialist Engineer, New standards for universally accessible tourism [88 KB] , ("Nuovi standards per un turismo accessibile universale": original transcript in Italian and translations in Czech, English, French, German and Spanish).
• Mr Antonio Tajani, Vice-President of the European Commission, Closing address [207 KB]
  "Intervento alla Giornata mondiale della standardizzazione": original speech in Italian with translations in Czech, English, French, German and Spanish.

Velotype services

Real time speech to text captioning was provided on an overhead screen. View unedited text. [470 KB]

Press release

Midday Express of 2010-10-12 -  MEX/10/1012
News from the Communication Directorate General's midday briefing - World Standards Day Conference 2010