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		<title>Procurement is key for accessible ICT in the workplace, claims new guide</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Oct 2017 19:26:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A detailed online resource to help employers purchase effective accessible technology through their procurement processes has been released. The guide, called ‘Buy IT!’, has been produced by the US-based Partnership on Employment &#38; Accessible Technology (PEAT). The introduction to Buy IT! states that a successful accessible ICT purchasing strategy means: “doing vendor research, specifying your [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>‘Smart cities’ are not inclusive – but they can be, new research claims</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 May 2017 12:40:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[‘Smart cities’ are not serving the needs of people with disabilities and older people, and risk deepening an existing digital divide, according to new, in-depth research. Smart cities are loosely defined as cities that integrate digital technologies into their infrastructure to transform and improve the lives of citizens and landscapes. In 2016, G3ict (the Global [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Final Draft of Mandate 376 Set For Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2012 12:20:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest and final draft of a new European Standard for the accessibility of ICT products and services procured by the public sector – known as “Mandate 376” – is to be placed online next week, E-Access Bulletin has learned. Users, developers, manufacturers, public bodies and procurers will have until October to offer feedback on [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Severely Disabled Pupils Face Wait For Home Access</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:19:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[School pupils with serious disabilities are facing an indefinite delay, likely to last six months or more, to receive the assistive technology they need to benefit from the government’s new ‘Home Access’ computer scheme, E-Access Bulletin has learned. The £300 million scheme ( www.homeaccess.org.uk ), managed by education ICT agency Becta ( www.becta.org.uk ), is [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Research &#8211; Accessibility: ‘Just The Right Thing To Do’</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:11:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tristan Parker]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Article by Peter Abrahams. In the past year or two it has been possible to detect heightened awareness of the need for accessibility of ICT products and services. This has partly been brought about by court cases such as that filed against Target.com in the US, where the National Federation of the Blind claimed that [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Outdated ‘Legacy’ Systems Hindering Accessibility</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:56:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lack of accessibility in old ICT systems and lack of budget are the two main barriers preventing organisations from making their internal and external ICT systems more accessible for people with disabilities, according to the results of the new survey. These factors were each cited by 40% of respondents as ‘strong’ or ‘very strong’ [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Public Procurement Enlisted To Improve Equality</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:54:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Public sector procurement should be used to improve equality for people with disabilities, including the development of more accessible IT systems, according to a government bill passing through Parliament. The Equality Bill ( services.parliament.uk/bills/2008-09/equality.html ), introduced to the Commons on 24 April and currently undergoing its committee stages, aims to reform and harmonise equality law. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Call for Tougher European Access Laws</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 16:50:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A more solid European legal foundation is needed to enforce technology accessibility, a leading software expert from Yahoo! told E-Access 09. Artur Ortega, ‘accessibility evangelist’ at Yahoo! Europe, said that ensuring more accessible products were developed would be a challenge, but that a legal basis for accessibility would actually impact positively on suppliers. “At the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Guidelines Create Landmark Month For Web Accessibility</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:38:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dan Jellinek]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The long-anticipated publication of new international web accessibility standard WCAG 2.0 has coincided with the release of a draft British Standard for managing web accessibility, in a landmark month for internet inclusion. WCAG 2.0 (www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20) is the new version of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), accepted as the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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