This new ePractice.eu eInclusion workshop provides a platform to explore these and other issues of relevance to ICTs and disability. In keeping with the current debates, the workshop will explore three themes:

• e-Accessibility. Bridging the gap between policy and practice. This will focus on state of the art in current policy, legislation and standardization aimed at delivering ‘design for all’. It will consider to what extent key stakeholders such as public authorities and commercial enterprises have delivered on key policy agendas, and how they might do so more effectively in the future.

• Designing for employability. This theme will cover issues around utilizing ICTs not only to support the more effective engagement of workers with disabilities in the workplace, but how new technologies can open up more labour market opportunities for people with disabilities.
• Design for living. This theme will explore broader issues around ‘disability, participation and community’. It will evaluate examples of good practices that aim to improve quality of life for people with disabilities; support their social, cultural and leisure activities and provide opportunities for developing community capacity. It will consider in particular the opportunities provided by ‘Web 2.0’ and social networking applications to support participation.

FEES & REGISTRATION
Assistance to this workshop is free of charge. You may register by clicking here. If you are not yet an ePractice member, before signing up you need to register.

Participants are strongly encouraged to read the workshop recommendations document beforehand.
Agenda
10:15–10:45 Registration
10:45–11:00 Welcome speech Mr. Baudouin de Sonis (Director eForum)
11:00-11:30 Keynote speech: "People with disabilities" Ms. Inmaculada Placencia-Porrero (EC, People with Disabilities Unit)
11:30–11:45 Coffee Break
11:45–12:15 Case 1: Discapnet Mr. José Angel Martínez Usero (Technosite, ONCE Foundation, Spain)
12:15–12:45 Case 2: AbilityNet Mr. Nigel Lewis (CEO AbilityNet, UK)
12:45-13:15 Case 3: Hoe bereikt u iedereen Mr. Eric Velleman (Bartimeus, The Netherlands)
13:15–14:15 Lunch Break
14:15-15:30 Three parallel working sessions Chaired by Mr. Baudouin de Sonis and Mr. Joe Cullen
15:30–16:00 Wrap up & farewell Mr. Joe Cullen and Ms. Juliane Jarke