Summary and closure

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Accessibility for All to Services and Terminals
for Next Generation Networks

• Summary and closure
• Patrick Roe
• Chairman COST 219ter
• LEMA-EPFL, Switzerland

COST 219ter Conference Vision in Action, 7th of
February 2008, Brussels
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Some points from today

• Potential of Mutual inspiration methodology
• Difficulty for actor/users to express potential
  improvements in the service
• In the interest of both industry and society that
  everyone can benefit from products
• eInclusion is an opportunity, make the eInclusion
  agenda a reality

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Main Highlights of COST 219 ter

• Workshops and Publications

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Main Highlights of COST 219 ter
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Main Highlights of COST 219 ter

• Evaluation toolkit for mobile phones
• Interactive management workshops

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Results from Interactive Management (IM)
workshopsYiannis Laouris Marios Michaelides

• Decide on a triggering question
• Gather factors from participants
• Vote on most important factors
• Select most important factors (24)
• Establish links between factors
• Courtesy of Dr. Aleco Christakis

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1st Triggering question

• Considering the availability of powerful
  broadband technologies and the development of
  relevant scenarios, what are the obstacles that
  prevent us from producing practical applications?

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2nd Triggering question

• What actions can the COST 219ter Community take
  to alleviate obstacles that prevent the
  development of practical applications

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Figure 7.3

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Factors at foot of roadmap 1

• The difficulty of the handicap community to
  agree on and define what accessible products and
  services really mean
• Poor Connection between statements of user needs
  and specific design requirements
• The weakness of broad thinking from the
  disability lobbies
• Lack of understanding of the market potential

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Factors at foot of roadmap 2

• Provide empirical rather than anecdotal
  evidence that evaluation/testing makes products
  easier to use for everyone
• Unify the disability community around a clear
  set of expectations, requirements and principles
  as an agenda for industry
• Hold workshops in each country inviting
  disability representatives to agree on a common
  set of accessibility measures
• Help formulate specific design requirements from
  user needs

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Main Highlights of COST 219
Setting up of TIDE 1 in 10 Stand at Telecom
95 Input into standards Publications
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1 in 10 stand at Telecom 95
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COST 219 Booklets
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COST 219 Books
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What has been the impact ?

• Impact on research
• Impact on people attitudes
• Much achieved, still much to do

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Ingredients of success

• Bottom-up approach
• Flexibility
• Longevity
• People

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Thank You COST 219ter Website www.tiresias.org/c
ost219ter