Legislation and Other Drivers for Change

• European Union

  • 45 million people with disabilities in the EU

  • Number of older Europeans steadily increasing

• Lisbon Agenda

  • to make the EU "the most dynamic and competitive knowledge-based economy in the world capable of sustainable economic growth with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion, and respect for the environment by 2010" adopted 2000

• eInclusion and eAccessibility

  • eEurope Action Plans and i2010

  • Adoption of [the WAI] guidelines
    for all public Web sites in Europe to Level AA

• EuroAccessibility project 2003

  • A kitemark.