Developing new services for eAccessibility.

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Developing new services for e-Accessibility.
Miguel Jiménez Project Manager Fundosa
Teleservicios mjimenez_at_teleservicios.es
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Index

• Once
• History and Mission
• Integration activities
• ONCE Corporation and Companies
• ONCE Foundation
• Fundosa
• E-Accessibility promotion in Spain
• InfoAccessibility Plans
• InfoAccessibility Actions
• Case study
• ONCE Foundation Strategies
• Disc_at_pnet
• Interesting Links
• Video.

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ONCE

• History and Mission

• Founded 1938.
• Its mission is the full social integration of
  blind and low vision people.
• Protect and oversee rights of blind and low
  vision people.

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ONCE

• Integration Activities

• Integrated Education.
• With 8 Schools focused on training of blind
  people.
• With 33 educational attention teams caring for
  needs of blind people integrated in ordinary
  schools.
• All stages of education are covered, from primary
  school to high school
• Work integration.
• More than 1.500 blind and low vision people
  working outside ONCE.
• 57900 people working for ONCE, ONCE Foundation or
  its companies (35000 with disabilities)
• Culture and Sports
• With an important bibliographic center with more
  than 18000 Braille titles and 65000 text titles
  available.
• ONCE takes part in the Olympic Games for disabled
  people(5th place in last games)

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ONCE, Corporation and Companies

• ONCE Corporation

• Founded 1993 to expand ONCEs bussiness activity
  through management and promotion for-profit
  companies that help work integration of blind,
  low-vision people and people with any other
  disabilities.

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ONCE, Corporation and Companies

• ONCE Fundation

• Foundation for cooperation between blind and
  other disablility groups, and social integration
• Founded 1988.
• Financed by ONCE, who dedicates 20 of the
  lottery sales income. That makes ONCE Foundation
  one of the most important foundations in Europe.

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ONCE, Corporation and Companies

• ONCE Foundation Mission

• Oversee physical and technological accessibility
• Social integration of people with disabilities
  through employment and training.
• ONCE Foundation dedicates 60 of its Budget to
  his employee and training programmes and 40 to
  accessiblity plans.
• To achieve employment creation objectives, ONCE
  Foundation created FUNDOSA.

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ONCE, Corporation and Companies

• FUNDOSA

• Founded 1989.
• With 147 employment centers, 12000 employees (69
  with disabilities)
• FUNDOSAs main mission is to create employment
  opportunities for disabled people and to prove
  their competency and their income-generation
  potential.
• FUNDOSAs companies are strategic for promoting
  Accessibility (physical and technological)
• Via Libre
• Teleservicios

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e-Accessibility promotion in Spain

• ONCE Foundation is a important pressure group and
  is in contact with the Spanish government to
  promote laws and initiatives to increase
  Accessibility and help for disabled people.
• In response to law 51/2003 (Integration and equal
  opportunities law), ONCE Foundation has signed
  agreements with the government(Labour and Social
  issues Department) through IMSERSO (Migration and
  social services institute) to design and promote
  Infoaccesibilty Programmes.
• Studies and report shows that
• More than 90 council web sites do not reach A
  Level
• 100 Political party web sites do not reach A
  Level
• University web sites are not accesible.
• Televisions web sites do not reach A Level

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e-Accessibility promotion in Spain

• Infoaccesibilty Programmes

• InfoAccessibility plan considered as a document
  focused on a specific province / municipality
  that defines
• Accessibility needs focused on new technology
  services.
• Targets that guarantee access for all to new
  technologies services.
• Actions to achieve these targets. For each
  action
• Execution priority
• Agent in charge of execution.
• Cost.
• Execution schedule.
• Evaluation procedures.
• Thanks to the agreement between ONCE Foundation
  and IMSERSO these programmes will be finaced
  between ONCE foundation and IMSERSO

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e-Accessibility promotion in Spain

• Infoaccesibilty actions

• Actions focused on increasing accessibility of
  new technology services
• Focused on reaching correct Accessibility level
  of public services web sites.
• These actions aimed at equipping citizens with
  public Internet access points and other services
  with the adequate accessibility.

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e-Accessibility promotion in Spain

• Infoaccesibilty Plans. Case Study. La Coruña
  Council

• InfoAccessibility plan considered as a global
  tool that
• Provides information about the real status of new
  technology services in La Coruña.
• Identifies and describes Accessibility needs.
• Define, considering those needs, general and
  specific infoaccessibility objectives.
• Devise strategies for reaching those objetives
  and the responsibilities of each agent involved.
• Establish the actions and tasks needed to achieve
  these objectives, task execution order and
  calendar.
• Help with decision making and selection of more
  suitable alternatives.
• Provide instruments to evaluate achivement of
  proposed objectives.

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e-Accessibility promotion in Spain

• Infoaccesibilty Plans. Case Study. La Coruña
  Council

• Deliverables.
• Complete diagnosis of status and treatment of
  infoaccessibility in municipality. Consists of
• Study of present state of accessibility of
  Information Society services in La Coruña.
• Evaluation report identifiying and describing
  infoAccessibility needs and showing the treatment
  of new technology Accessibility in La Coruña.
• Technical assistance and tools for access to new
  technologies.
• Operating plan that describes actions to be
  executed to solve Accessibility problems
  highlighted in diagnosis.
• Accessibility of La Coruña Web Site.
• Availability and accessibility of
• infrastructures of access to the Society of the
  Information
• information services about transport and mobility
• information services about health servcies,
  emergency....
• information services about education and training

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e-Accessibility promotion in Spain

• ONCE Foundation Strategies

• ONCE Foundation carries out its strategies
  through its group of companies because of their
  wide experience in accessibility issues.
• Via Libre (Physical Accessibility)
• Teleservicios (Technological Accessibility)

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e-Accessibility promotion in Spain

• DISC_at_PNET Project

• Cofinanced by ONCE Foundation and the European
  Regional Development Fund. (120000 Euro over six
  years)
• Mission Narrow the IT gap for disabled people
• Services
• Links
• e-Library
• Agenda
• Documents
• Glossary
• Statistical data
• Interactive assistant
• Services information (transport, maps, chemistry
  ...)
• Accessibility Observatory Check accesibility
  betwee different Sectors
• Universities
• Government

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e-Accessibility promotion in Spain

• Interesting Links

• ONCE Foundation
• http//www.fundaciononce.es
• ONCE
• http//www.once.es
• Disc_at_pnet
• http//www.discapnet.org
• Fundosa Teleservicios
• http//www.teleservicios.com