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The idea of creating Ideos has become obvious in late 2008 for three reasons ...

After six years at the head of operations AccessiWeb (Web Accessibility: Web access by all users and all modes of consultation), Pierre Guillou was able to measure the important gains made ​​at the production of knowledge on the assessment of web accessibility standard. The network of experts AccessiWeb he founded in 2003 is the most concrete expression since this network in France now have nearly 300 developers / project managers Web (nearly 200 organizations) with expertise evaluation of web accessibility (as of March 2009).

However, digital uses have evolved:

• the Internet has become a producer of information
• and consults a website today in a personalized way (mobile phone, audio playback, zoom, control layout, multiple Web browsers, screen size variable, without a mouse ...).

Accessibility can guarantee a website owner that its online information will be read by all, whatever the means of consultation. et les vidéos, les supports de consultation autres que l'ordinateur classique, les mobiles, la télévision numérique… Il faut donc passer à une nouvelle étape technologique : créer des solutions innovantes et accessibles pour les nouveaux usages Web ( ie , raison n° 1). It is also necessary that the development methods and solutions are available to make new objects Web: Web 2.0, Web applications, software, tools, content management (CMS, blog ...), the said proprietors formats (Word, PDF ...), the rich media animations and videos, media consultation other than the traditional computer, mobile phones, digital television ... We must therefore move to a new technological step: creating innovative and accessible new uses Web (ie, reason # 1).

In addition, to the degree of investment in accessibility is cost effective over time (ie, an action not only dispersed in response to a legal obligation or in order to achieve a stroke of communications), this technological development must be in response the real needs of users, the e-government and businesses in a classic yet new approach in the field of web accessibility: defining the strategic impact and ROI of Web accessibility (ie, because n 2).

Finally, web accessibility is one component of a larger domain, and morally necessary source of values ​​for the future: digital accessible to sustainable development (ie, reason # 3). Whether the regional digital development for the public sector, the individual or collective action facilitated by the Web (eg via the web control the temperature of his house, car sharing Web service ...) or scanning processes in the private sector (cost reductions, increased productivity, new services ...), the success of sustainable development policies based largely on access, control and sharing of information. The information technology and communication have therefore a key. Accessibility for all and by all modes of consultation is a prerequisite for their use.

Pierre Guillou founded the company Ideos to meet this triple challenge of a European approach:

1. create innovative solutions and available for new uses Web
2. define the strategic impact and ROI of web accessibility,
3. make accessible ICT for sustainable development.

Ideos is a founding member of the Network AccessiPro .