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Consultation workshop on Web accessibility, 10 June 2008

The European Commission, in cooperation with the team of the study "Accessibility to ICT products and services by the disabled and elderly people", convened on 10 June 2008 a consultation workshop with the aim to gather expertise and views in relation to both web-accessibility and general e-accessibility from stakeholders (Member States, users and industry), in order to assess the need for and elements of possible European level action to these issues.

The report of the workshop is now available, with as annex, the briefing paper drafted in preparation of the workshop:

See also, as annexes to the report, the presentations made on the day by the study team:

for the Web accessibility session
for the session on a horizontal approach to e-accessibility

Also available, the contribution of Dr. Gottfried Zimmermann of the Access Technologies Group & Trace Center: Raising The Floor - Making Access Attainable for the Other 25-75% of Users with Disabilities