accessibility, computing is the ability of a device, a service or resource to be easily usable by any class of ' user. The term is commonly
associated with the possibility for people with reduced or impaired sensory, motor, or mental (or living with disabilities both temporary and permanent), to make use of computer systems and software resources available. The term has also found wide use in the field of Internet with the same meaning.
associated with the possibility for people with reduced or impaired sensory, motor, or mental (or living with disabilities both temporary and permanent), to make use of computer systems and software resources available. The term has also found wide use in the field of Internet with the same meaning.
In Italy for new achievements and changes made by the Public Administration its or their own websites be taken into account (worth nullity of contracts) of the " Stanca Law" (Law 4 of 9 January 2004 , Published in the Official Gazette the January 17 2004), operationalized with the implementation decree of 2005 end. The same obligation is in charge, as specified in art. 2 of the Act, to public entities, private businesses and concessionaires of public services to the municipal regional institutions to support and rehabilitation agencies, businesses, transport and telecommunications with a majority equity ownership and public services contractors computer. The compulsory application of the law exists only for public sites (or public interest), while always in the public sphere, the provisions of the Act does not apply to computer systems intended to be consumed by user groups to which it is required by law, can not join the disabled.
The law also contains some definitions:
a) 'accessibility' means the ability of computer systems, forms and to the extent permitted by technological knowledge, to deliver services and provide actionable information, without discrimination, even by those who, because disabilities require assistive technologies or special configurations;
b) 'assistive technology' tools and technical solutions, hardware and software that allow the disabled person to overcome or reduce the initial disadvantages in accessing to information and services provided by computer systems.
Italian law - the subject of heated debates on its real weight in promoting web accessibility - aims to give effect to the principle of equality under Article. 3 of the Italian Constitution and guarantee the right of access to IT and telecommunication services of public administration and public services by persons with disabilities. The provisions of the Act apply not only to web sites, too, as enshrined in Article .5, educational and training materials used in schools of all levels and at stations in both the public and private sectors. The final draft of
Law is born from the merger of several proposals and debates. Following approval of the legislation have been set up working groups of the Scientific-Technical Secretariat of the Interministerial Commission for the use of information and communication technologies for the benefit of disadvantaged and vulnerable groups with the participation of institutions and associations representing of people with disabilities, hardware manufacturers and software developers association representing experts in the field of accessibility ( IWA). The result of these workshops is a series of technical annexes contained in the Ministerial Decree of 8 July 2005.
The law also contains some definitions:
a) 'accessibility' means the ability of computer systems, forms and to the extent permitted by technological knowledge, to deliver services and provide actionable information, without discrimination, even by those who, because disabilities require assistive technologies or special configurations;
b) 'assistive technology' tools and technical solutions, hardware and software that allow the disabled person to overcome or reduce the initial disadvantages in accessing to information and services provided by computer systems.
Italian law - the subject of heated debates on its real weight in promoting web accessibility - aims to give effect to the principle of equality under Article. 3 of the Italian Constitution and guarantee the right of access to IT and telecommunication services of public administration and public services by persons with disabilities. The provisions of the Act apply not only to web sites, too, as enshrined in Article .5, educational and training materials used in schools of all levels and at stations in both the public and private sectors. The final draft of
Law is born from the merger of several proposals and debates. Following approval of the legislation have been set up working groups of the Scientific-Technical Secretariat of the Interministerial Commission for the use of information and communication technologies for the benefit of disadvantaged and vulnerable groups with the participation of institutions and associations representing of people with disabilities, hardware manufacturers and software developers association representing experts in the field of accessibility ( IWA). The result of these workshops is a series of technical annexes contained in the Ministerial Decree of 8 July 2005.
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