[Web Accessibility] Disabled people at the center of training registrations for training "Standards for web accessibility and use of disabled people", 26, 27 and 28 January 2011 are open! Since the accessibility of public websites has become a legal requirement in France and some businesses [...]

[Digital Accessibility] Statement by Pierre Guillou Master Handicap at Sciences-Po (Paris) On the proposal of the Department for Continuing Education Sciences-Po (Paris), Pierre Guillou (leader Ideos) intervened Thursday, November 25, 2010 on the theme of Accessibility in the Digital

Faced with a legal obligation to web accessibility of websites of the French public sector (PGRFA) and the need to make digitally accessible society in general, it is certainly learn the rules of accessibility but above all: to understand the consequences in terms of practical use for the disabled train to accessibility in general [...]

Training Centre in eAccessibility is an initiative of CERTAM (Association Valentin Haüy) and society Ideos. His new website will publish its training and resources on digital accessibility. Note: To learn more about CERTAM and Ideos, see About Us.

The AFNOR, following the work of the Committee on Standards "disabled friendly Company" founded in 2009, has announced the publication of the standard NF X 50-783 on "disabled-friendly organizations - requirements and recommendations for decision account of disability in organizations ". Here is the beginning of the press release of the AFNOR: Accessibility of people [...]

The Consortium national experts of the study "Monitoring eAccessibility in Europe" has selected two national experts in digital accessibility by European countries: a technical expert and an expert in policy (regulations, laws, processes, digital market access, public and private ...). The term eAccessibility (Accessibility) in this study concerns the accessibility of all [...]

As part of the General City Digital Fontenay-sous-Bois, the conference "Internet for all, solidarity Internet" was held February 3, 2010 as stated in Article Ideos the conference "Internet for all, Internet solidarity ". This conference was done in partnership with the Caisse des Depots, Datar, the National Council of [...]

Summary: AFNOR launched a public inquiry into the future standard French ("disabled-friendly organizations: Recommendations for the inclusion of disability in organizations"). After the publication in April 2008 of the Agreement X AC 50-783 "Integration of disabled people in organizations" and as envisaged in the development of this agreement, the parties [...]

The General Secretariat of the Interministerial Committee of the cities, the Delegation to the uses of the Internet, Fontenay-sous-Bois and cities offer Internet, 3 February, a seminar "Internet for all, Internet solidarity" in Fontenay-sous-Bois (94 ), in partnership with the Caisse des Depots, Datar, the National Disability Council, the Agency of new active solidarity (Ansa), Acsé, Brest city [...]

Google has announced the release of a new mobile application for Android: Google Goggles. This is an innovative research by the image: You take a picture of an object you want with your Android mobile (eg the Eiffel Tower). The photo is sent to Google and analyzed. If Google [...]

Note 1: This document presents the detailed content of the presentation given to Pierre Guillou Roumics Thursday, November 26, 2009 on the theme: Accessibility, more than a slogan. The powerpoint presentation is also available online at SlideShare. Note 2: to better understand Web 1.0, Web 2.0 [...]

The Internet Solidarity Association North (ANIS) look forward to seeing you Thursday, November 26, 2009, from 09h to 17h30 at MACC'S Villeneuve d'Ascq (Metropolitan Auditorium for Culture, the Congress and Seminars) for a new edition Roumics , this time on "Accessibility, Disability and ICT". You will discover relevant initiatives, innovative and [...]

Google just announced Google Blog 3 major innovations for subtitling in real time videos on YouTube: by activating the subtitle automatically when you view a video on YouTube, the subtitles appear on the video ( they are created in real time using the technology of speech recognition [...]

This decree concerns the RGAA (repository accessibility guidelines to be applied to public sector Web sites in France). The publication of this decree in the Official Journal of 29 October 2009 makes this standard mandatory from that date. The RGAA should be applied according to Decree No. 2009-546 (May 14, 2009) of the article [...]

The obligation to design accessible web interfaces websites for the public sector (Article 47 of Law No. 2005-102 of 11 February 2005) is similar to imposing setting accessibility of public buildings and Highways by 2015. This is a necessary first step for a [...]

Summary: This article describes the scope of Article 47 of Law No. 2005-102 which requires to create in France a policy of digital accessible than the issue of Web sites. Proposals to build a base and a one-stop e-government accessible are detailed at the end of the article to meet this obligation [...]

The French version approved by the W3C international guidelines for accessibility of Web content has been published (publication date: June 25, 2009). This WCAG 2.0. In an obvious way (note 1), Ideos welcomes this announcement. In addition, two important information that will facilitate the harmonization of Web accessibility are [...]

Commission Standards AFNOR X488 "disabled friendly company" which is a member Ideos met in plenary session Tuesday, June 23, 2009. The agenda was to make a first assessment of the drafting of the Charter will become a French standard on the integration of disabled people in organizations (description of the commitments and good [...]

Article summary WAI, seniors and the Web Accessibility A senior, what is it? Definition by age and environmental figures and statistics in the world from 2005 to 2050 from 2010, employment obligation of seniors over 50 years Law and Order in favor of older employees Synthesis [ ...]

Decree No. 2009-546 of 14 May 2009 pursuant to Article 47 of Law No. 2005-102 of February 11, 2005 was published May 16, 2009 in the Official Gazette. Remember, Law No. 2005-102 is on equal rights and opportunities, participation and citizenship of disabled people. Article 47 defines [...]