EU eAccessibility Press Release
All public procurement contracts for ICT goods and services should stipulate eAccessibility, say stakeholders.>
Requirements to make information and communication technology (ICT) goods and services accessible to elderly and disabled people should be laid down in public procurement contracts. So say 90% of the 500 respondents (public agencies, ICT goods and service suppliers, universities, business associations and user groups) to the Commission’s January 2005 public consultation on the need for “eAccessiblity” measures.