Cross-Posting - European accessibility requirements for public procurement report final

The ETSI technical report, "European accessibility requirements for public procurement of products and services in the ICT domain" is in final draft.
This is a huge step toward legislating accessible procurement of computer technology in Europe, as U.S. Section 508 was intended to do in the U.S.

Cheers,

Lisa

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From: Bruno von Niman [mailto:bruno@vonniman.com]
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 11:05 AM
To: Bruno.vonNiman@etsi.org
Subject: Final draft ETSI TR "European Accessibility Requirements in Public ICT Procurement" (EC M 376 Phase1) availability announcement

Dear Colleague,

This is to confirm that the Final draft of ETSI Technical Report ETSI DTR 102 612: “Human Factors (HF); European accessibility requirements for public procurement of products and services in the ICT domain (European Commission Mandate M 376, Phase 1))” has been released as planned and is available since a few days from  http://portal.etsi.org/stfs/STF_HomePages/STF333/STF333.asp


This document will be presented for approval at a joint ESO TB cross-approval meeting, together with the Final draft from our sister team addressing the other aspects of EC Mandate M 376. The meeting will take place in Sophia Antipolis, France, hosted by ETSI at the ETSI Headquarters on Wednesday, October 8, 2008, starting at 14h00 and ending not later than 18h00.

At the same meeting, the Final draft report from the CEN PT (available at http://www.econformance.eu/  ) will be presented for cross-ESO TB approval.

Invited experts (from DATSCG and other stakeholder organizations who are not members of the relevant CEN/CENELEC or ETSI Committees) may attend, but should send a registration request to Bruno.vonNiman@etsi.org not later than Friday, October 3, 14h00 CET). Please note that such participants will be permitted to comment on the draft deliverables but not to vote on the documents being presented for approval.

The 175 comments you have provided on the 4th Public ETSI TR draft (until September 24) have all been processed and collected in one document, published at http://portal.etsi.org/stfs/STF_HomePages/STF333/STF333.asp  (logging all 315 comments received to date), together with the team’s resolutions.

Feel free to forward this email and information to anyone you believe would be interested in knowing about the progress of the work and the availability of the Final drafts!

With best regards- on behalf of ETSI STF333,
Bruno von Niman
Bruno von Niman, M.Sc.
ETSI STF333 Leader

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Background: The three European Standardization Organizations have set up two parallel project teams to carry out the work specified in the European Commission “Mandate 376 to CEN, CENELEC and ETSI, in Support of Accessibility Requirements for Public Procurement of Products and Services in the ICT Domain”.
ETSI TC Human Factors Specialist Task Force 333 has developed ETSI DTR 102 612. Further details about the work performed by STF333 (e.g, Terms of Reference, specification of the detailed work tasks, time plan for the work, previous drafts, listing of comments received and means to contact us) can be found at http://portal.etsi.org/stfs/STF_HomePages/STF333/STF333.asp

The parts relating to the assessment of suitable testing and conformity schemes were carried out by the parallel project, in CEN BT/WG185/PT (for further information, see http://www.econformance.eu/ ). The two projects are closely coordinated.




Lisa Pappas

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