RE: European Accessibility Act: Parliament and Council negotiators strike a deal

At the moment is says:

“A number of accessibility standards are under development at European level following standardisation requests by the European Commission to the European standardisation organisations (ESO). These standardisation requests (non-legislative actions) invited ESOs to align the development of voluntary European standards to global developments. The requests relevant to accessibility are: M/376 6 (2005) on ICT which resulted in a European standard EN 301 549 7 adopted in February 2014; M/420 8 (2007) on built environment and M/473 9 on mainstreaming accessibility following a "design for all" approach in the European standardisation. These standardisation requests were issued after a positive opinion of the Member States in the Committee set up by Article 5 of Directive 98/34/EC and invite the ESOs to develop certain voluntary accessibility standards and to review, when possible, existing standards to give better guidance concerning “design for all” principles.”

The 5th of December I’ll be in Brussels for a conference on European Web Accessibility Regulations.
Will check if they would like to make it a recommendation or required but till now I was always assuming 301549 is the one and only to follow.

Cheers!

From: David MacDonald [mailto:david100@sympatico.ca]
Sent: woensdag 21 november 2018 22:37
To: Abma, J.D. (Jake) <Jake.Abma@ing.com>
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Subject: Re: European Accessibility Act: Parliament and Council negotiators strike a deal

Thanks Jake

That is interesting.

It says "The EAA will outline what needs to be accessible, but will not impose detailed technical solutions as to how to make it accessible, thus allowing for innovation."

Does that mean it won't reference the EN 301 549?


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On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 12:34 PM Abma, J.D. (Jake) <Jake.Abma@ing.com<mailto:Jake.Abma@ing.com>> wrote:

A step closer now...



For people who are interested:



European Accessibility Act: Parliament and Council negotiators strike a deal​​

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/nl/press-room/20181108IPR18560/european-accessibility-act-parliament-and-council-negotiators-strike-a-deal​



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