A new network of 51 specialist organisations across England have been funded to help local computer users with a disability or learning difficulty to get online and use government services.
Four out of five leading price comparison websites surveyed are inaccessible to disabled and elderly users, potentially putting them in breach of the Equality Act 2010, a new report has found.
Conducted by ICT access charity AbilityNet, the research presents a dismal picture of accessibility by disabled and elderly users for the websites, which allow people to compare prices of goods and services including online shopping and insurance prices.
The British Assistive Technology Association (BATA) and RNIB are calling for changes to the copyright law to allow disabled people to copy all legally owned digital books or multimedia into more accessible formats.
The calls come as part of the organisation’s response to consultation on proposed changes to copyright law from the UK Intellectual Property Office in a report by Professor Ian Hargreaves – chair of digital economy at the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies – which would allow wider and easier access to a range of materials for disabled people.
By Brian Kelly
For many web authors, developers and policy makers, the issue of accessibility to disabled people is addressed mainly by trying to ensure that their sites conform with the international Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) maintained by the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) of the World Wide Web Consortium.
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Telemedicine project ‘My Heart’ is to become operational in the town of Bad Oyenhausen, in North Rhine-Westphalia, aiming to provide homecare to patients with a left-sided heart failure. All relevant data will be transmitted through a telephone line to the doctors.
The Global Centre for ICT in Parliament has recently launched the Global Survey of ICT in Parliaments 2012, which will allow to measure progress of e-parliament including the changes due to recent technological developments.
LEGAL HACKS is hosting an International Legislation UnHackathon sponsored by the Hastings Science & Technology Law Journal. Next 19 May, at the Hastings College of Law of the University of California, attorneys and technologists will gather in groups and “mark up” existing laws into an XML format based on Akoma Ntoso.
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The Mediterranean Institute for Transplantation and High Specialisation Therapies (ISMETT, in Italian) has recently launched a tele-health monitoring project for 30 Sicilian liver transplant patients during the post-transplant follow-up period.
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The Professional Association of Children’s and Young People’s Physicians aims to develop a Bavaria-wide telemedicine system that will enable pediatricians to connect online with experts, such as rheumatologists, cardiologists, pulmonologists, neurologists, hematologists and immunologists.
The 7th PEPPOL conference will take place in Rome. The event will provide insight into the results and the future follow-up of the large scale pilot (LSP) project. Interested parties will be provided with examples of pilot achievements and other first-hand information about PEPPOL. The aim is to show decision makers of the European Commission, Member States, public sector entities, suppliers and service providers the long term sustainability of PEPPOL through specific initiatives. epSOS will participate on 30/5: LSP building blocks- epSOS
Project outcome and reusability.
This online space for discussion/collaboration allows us (1) to prepare the Digital Agenda Assembly 2012, (2) as well as the review of the Digital Agenda for Europe, planned for adoption in October.
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The results of an independent scientific evaluation of the 'e-Medikation pilot project', which was carried out under Austria's electronic health records project - ELGA (Elektronische Gesundheitsakte), were presented on 10 May 2012.
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The Lithuanian Ministry of Health has recently signed a contract for the implementation of a national medical picture archiving and information exchange system called MedVAIS (Nacionalinės medicininių vaizdų archyvavimo ir mainų informacinės sistemos, in Lituanian).
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In Finland, the 'Telestroke Network' offers assistance to hospitals that have to treat stroke patients but cannot provide a neurologist at night and on weekend.
Italian hospitals Gavardo and Manerbio have just entered the epSOS piloting phase (ePrescription and Patient Summaries)! The list of healthcare points of care willing to provide the epSOS services is growing! This is a good news as the holiday season is approaching. Take a look on the map on the epSOS website to see where you can find them. More Points of Care will follow soon, stay up-to-date! As well do not forget that you can now download the European Health Insurance Card on your smartphone!
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At the beginning of April 2012, the following new electronic services were launched: GetPerson2.0, SearchPersonByName 2.0 and SearchPersonByAddress 2.0, in order to facilitate the work of public administrations.
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According to a new study from the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (IPTS), Denmark, England and Scotland have been pioneers in the use of electronic communication in and across the health and social care sectors, as they have been able to integrate telehealth into standard patient treatments.
