The URL has now been changed: look at
http://www.theequalitiesreview.org.uk/publications instead. Alternative
formats are now available too.
Best wishes
---
Ruth Loebl
Senior ICT Development Officer

Royal National Institute of the Blind
58-72 John Bright Street
Birmingham
B1 1BN
Tel: +44 (0)121-665 4231
Fax: +44 (0)121-665 4201
Email: Ruth.Loebl@...
Web: http://www.rnib.org.uk/technology/

Now online - The RNIB Software Access Centre. Helping you design,
procure and test for software accessibility. Go to:
http://www.rnib.org.uk/softwareaccesscentre


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From: IT-include@yahoogroups.com [mailto:IT-include@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Loebl, Ruth
Sent: 15 March 2007 14:31
To: IT-include@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [IT-include] Equalities Review and public procurement

This was published on 28 February, and anticipates the UK plan to merge
the equalities bodies for sex, race and disability into a new Commission
for Equality and Human Rights in October 2007.
http://www.theequalitiesreview.org.uk/publications/interim_report.aspx
<http://www.theequalitiesreview.org.uk/publications/interim_report.aspx>

[Despite the URL, it is the final report.]

I haven't read it all, but skipped to Chapter 5 Step 8: Using public
procurement and commissioning positively.
Excerpt:
"The Government and the wider public sector have enormous purchasing
power, by virtue of how much they spend buying goods and services from
the private and voluntary sectors. This is an area where Government
leadership is absolutely essential, and one in which Government should
be seen to set an example ... we propose that the new public sector duty
should incorporate a specific requirement for public bodies to use
procurement as a tool for achieving greater equality. Ensuring that
commissioning frameworks require providers to analyse the needs of
different groups, and that they monitor provision using quantitative and
qualitative analysis, will also be an important element of the new duty.
Implementation should be led by the recently restructured Office of
Government Commerce and the Treasury, as part of the ongoing
professionalisation of the public sector procurement system. This will
facilitate the necessary clarity of process and intent that will be
essential for suppliers and procurers alike."

We will need to monitor whether progress is made and offer our input as
appropriate.
Best wishes
---
Ruth Loebl
Senior ICT Development Officer

Royal National Institute of the Blind
58-72 John Bright Street
Birmingham
B1 1BN
Tel: +44 (0)121-665 4231
Fax: +44 (0)121-665 4201
Email: Ruth.Loebl@... <mailto:Ruth.Loebl%40RNIB.org.uk>
Web: http://www.rnib.org.uk/technology/
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This was published on 28 February, and anticipates the UK plan to merge
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for Equality and Human Rights in October 2007.
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[Despite the URL, it is the final report.]

I haven't read it all, but skipped to Chapter 5 Step 8: Using public
procurement and commissioning positively.
Excerpt:
"The Government and the wider public sector have enormous purchasing
power, by virtue of how much they spend buying goods and services from
the private and voluntary sectors. This is an area where Government
leadership is absolutely essential, and one in which Government should
be seen to set an example ... we propose that the new public sector duty
should incorporate a specific requirement for public bodies to use
procurement as a tool for achieving greater equality. Ensuring that
commissioning frameworks require providers to analyse the needs of
different groups, and that they monitor provision using quantitative and
qualitative analysis, will also be an important element of the new duty.
Implementation should be led by the recently restructured Office of
Government Commerce and the Treasury, as part of the ongoing
professionalisation of the public sector procurement system. This will
facilitate the necessary clarity of process and intent that will be
essential for suppliers and procurers alike."

We will need to monitor whether progress is made and offer our input as
appropriate.
Best wishes
---
Ruth Loebl
Senior ICT Development Officer

Royal National Institute of the Blind
58-72 John Bright Street
Birmingham
B1 1BN
Tel: +44 (0)121-665 4231
Fax: +44 (0)121-665 4201
Email: Ruth.Loebl@...
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This post is a direct invitation to all interested parties to
contribute towards a research project on which the Foundation for
Information Technology is embarking in order to devise consistant
measurement criteria for the cost of exclusion to disabled persons and
society.

I shall post relevant material to this group too in the future, but as
you can appreciate the scope of our project is wider and therefore not
necessarily relevant to this group.

Should you be interested please join the qualitydisability yahoo group.

I thank the moderators in advance, for the space allotted.

You may be interested to know that the DRC's specific information on DED
and procurement has been published (dated December 2006) at:
http://www.drc.org.uk/employers_and_service_provider/disability_equality
_duty/sectoral_guidance/procurement.aspx

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B1 1BN
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Adrian Higginbotham
Project manager, Standards

British Educational Communications and Technology Agency - BECTA
Tel: Direct dial 024 7679 7333 - Becta switchboard 02476-416994.

Email: Adrian.Higginbotham@...
Web: http://www.becta.org.uk/
BECTA, Millburn Hill Road, Science Park, Coventry, CV4 7JJ

Hi Ian

I recently attended a workshop held by Becta, where discussion of
'reasonable adjustments' overlapped with guidelines for procurement and
educational labelling. Adrian Higginbotham led the event, and other
organisations represented included SEMERC, the ACE centre and AbilityNet
as well as Pete Rainger. You may wish to contact Adrian directly to have
a chat about it, if you haven't done so already.

Best wishes
Ruth

-----Original Message-----
From: IT-include@yahoogroups.com [mailto:IT-include@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Ian Litterick
Sent: 10 November 2006 19:04
To: it-include@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [IT-include] FW: The changing UK marketplace for educational
resources - your part in what BESA is doing

Ruth et al

BESA is looking at educational procurement with/for its members. It
occurs to me that the accessibility agenda should be represented. I
wondered if any other members of the list were BESA members or had
relevant ideas or papers.

Ian Litterick
Executive Chairman
www.iansyst.co.uk <http://www.iansyst.co.uk/>
www.dyslexic.com <http://www.dyslexic.com/>



________________________________

From: Andrew Everest [mailto:andrew@...]
Sent: 10 November 2006 16:35
To: Ian Litterick
Subject: The changing UK marketplace for educational resources - your
part in what BESA is doing



Dear Ian

At the AGM on Wednesday I went into detail about some of the issues we
see affecting our marketplace in the next few years, which is the focus
of BESA's new business plan.

At one level it is the advent of e-procurement - and trying to ensure
that this is an opportunity to drive down the cost of sales rather than
a recipe for losing the direct links between members and customers.

At another level it is the Government's desire for value for public
money - and trying to ensure that this is in positive partnership with
the membership, recognising what a great asset our industry is to UK
education, rather than a 'squeeze industry' agenda.

It is equally about challenging Government on issues such as state aid -
most notably so far in relation to BBC Jam, but now rearing its head
afresh with the proposal for Government to publish its own materials for
phonics.

There is also the framework contract concept, beloved by Becta in
particular.

In discussion with members it is clear that there is an even wider range
of concerns and opportunities. The Executive Council, with the clear
support of the AGM, wants BESA to develop consensus approaches on the
full variety of these procurement issues and then to lobby fiercely to
ensure a fair and positive deal for members in all areas.

We have therefore defined a process which this email starts and I have a
series of requests and information points:

1. For the foreseeable future we will have one of more email groups
and/or chat rooms for members about the full range of procurement
issues. So that we are talking to the right person or persons within
your company, **please reply to this email with the name(s) and email
address(es) of those who you would like to have input and be kept
informed**. Although we will still cover these issues in Insight, the
list formed from replies will be those who we will consult and inform on
a regular basis.

2. I have raised issues above in a general sense. There will be others
and for individual companies there will be a variety of specific
concerns and ideas. We need to capture all of these so that we can
understand the full range of what needs to be addressed. **Please will
you or your nominated contacts email back by next Friday, 17 November**
with thoughts, comments, papers, proposals or whatever you have that
will best explain your interests and concerns.

3. We will hold a **general meeting on Thursday 23 November**; currently
we are planning to run from 11am to 3pm. If the numbers wishing to
attend are below 26 it will be at the BESA offices. Otherwise it will be
at another London venue. If you are interested in your company being
represented please reply with the name of the person you wish to send.
**We will guarantee a place for any name emailed to us by next Wednesday
15th November** (when we will make our venue decision).  We will send
out final details for attendance no later than Tuesday 21 November.
Please look out for them.

4. At or shortly after the meeting we will set up a task force which
will meet as necessary to steer a work plan which will be developed from
your responses to bullet 2 above and the meeting.

You will appreciate that this is a major initiative and is critical to
how the market will function in the future. Your early response would be
greatly appreciated.

Dominic


Dominic J S Savage OBE

Director General

Email: dominic@...

British Educational Suppliers Association (BESA)

20 Beaufort Court

Admirals Way

London

E14 9XL

UK

Tel: +44 (0) 207 537 4997

Fax: +44 (0) 207 537 4846

Web: www.besa.org.uk


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Dear Ian

At the AGM on Wednesday I went into detail about some of the issues we see affecting our marketplace in the next few years, which is the focus of BESA’s new business plan.

At one level it is the advent of e-procurement - and trying to ensure that this is an opportunity to drive down the cost of sales rather than a recipe for losing the direct links between members and customers.

At another level it is the Government’s desire for value for public money - and trying to ensure that this is in positive partnership with the membership, recognising what a great asset our industry is to UK education, rather than a ‘squeeze industry’ agenda.

It is equally about challenging Government on issues such as state aid -  most notably so far in relation to BBC Jam, but now rearing its head afresh with the proposal for Government to publish its own materials for phonics.

There is also the framework contract concept, beloved by Becta in particular.

In discussion with members it is clear that there is an even wider range of concerns and opportunities. The Executive Council, with the clear support of the AGM, wants BESA to develop consensus approaches on the full variety of these procurement issues and then to lobby fiercely to ensure a fair and positive deal for members in all areas.

We have therefore defined a process which this email starts and I have a series of requests and information points:

1. For the foreseeable future we will have one of more email groups and/or chat rooms for members about the full range of procurement issues. So that we are talking to the right person or persons within your company, **please reply to this email with the name(s) and email address(es) of those who you would like to have input and be kept informed**. Although we will still cover these issues in Insight, the list formed from replies will be those who we will consult and inform on a regular basis.

2. I have raised issues above in a general sense. There will be others and for individual companies there will be a variety of specific concerns and ideas. We need to capture all of these so that we can understand the full range of what needs to be addressed. **Please will you or your nominated contacts email back by next Friday, 17 November** with thoughts, comments, papers, proposals or whatever you have that will best explain your interests and concerns.

3. We will hold a **general meeting on Thursday 23 November**; currently we are planning to run from 11am to 3pm. If the numbers wishing to attend are below 26 it will be at the BESA offices. Otherwise it will be at another London venue. If you are interested in your company being represented please reply with the name of the person you wish to send. **We will guarantee a place for any name emailed to us by next Wednesday 15th November** (when we will make our venue decision).  We will send out final details for attendance no later than Tuesday 21 November. Please look out for them.

4. At or shortly after the meeting we will set up a task force which will meet as necessary to steer a work plan which will be developed from your responses to bullet 2 above and the meeting.

You will appreciate that this is a major initiative and is critical to how the market will function in the future. Your early response would be greatly appreciated.

Dominic


Dominic J S Savage OBE

Director General

Email: dominic@...

British Educational Suppliers Association (BESA)

20 Beaufort Court

Admirals Way

London

E14 9XL

UK

Tel: +44 (0) 207 537 4997

Fax: +44 (0) 207 537 4846

Web: www.besa.org.uk
 

The US Section 508 legislation is being reviewed, and input is being
actively sought from experts and interested parties external to the USA.
There is a Wiki covering the activity of the various committees, at
http://teitac.org/wiki/TEITAC_Wiki.

The Section 508 legislation has been a great motivator for technology
manufacturers to address accessibility, in order to have access to the
US government market. I have seen accessible developments from Adobe,
Apple, Xerox and Canon that simply would not have happened without this
legislation. For the US government to seek input outside the US is an
unprecedented step, and I hope that the resulting change will be of
benefit to all in this global marketplace, and set a standard for us to
follow in Europe and the rest of the world.

Cheers
Ruth

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This is the standard that was previously Technical Specification ISO/TS
16071, Ergonomics of human-system interaction - Guidance on software
accessibility. It has reached the final draft stage, where comments can
be fed back into the drafting committee to shape the final published
version, which should be available next year.

The document itself is not intended for public distribution on a list
such as this, but I would be glad to forward it to individuals who get
in touch with me directly or through the list.

I am a member of the British Standards Institute Committee that is
considering the draft, and can feed back any comments that you have,
providing that I receive them by Friday 22 September. This is our last
chance to influence the standard, so I hope you will be able to review
the standard, and I look forward to compiling and submitting your
comments to the Committee.

Best wishes
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Royal National Institute of the Blind
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Birmingham
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Below is the announcement of a new area of the RNIB website. It covers a
great deal more than procurement, but there is a hefty section on
procurement that may be informative and relevant.
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RNIB's Software Access Centre launched in August 2006, with, among other
things, our top five recommendations for making software accessible.

Software accessibility has always been the poor cousin to web
accessibility, and we want to change that. This website aims to raise
awareness of the importance of accessible systems, and to give people
the resources they need to design, procure and test for software
accessibility.

It will be of interest to software designers, developers, systems
integrators, procurement professionals, accessibility policy makers, and
those of you generally interested in the accessibility field.

The content includes something for everyone and starts at the background
to software accessibility, moving on to laws and standards, procurement,
testing and evaluation, design and development and inaccessible
environments.

One of our top five recommendations is to try to carry out every task
and action without using the mouse - this gives a good picture of just
how difficult it is to use software that hasn't followed accessibility
standards.

You can find out more about this and the other top five recommendations
on the website.

Go to www.rnib.org.uk/softwareaccesscentre.

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Senior ICT Development Officer

Royal National Institute of the Blind
58-72 John Bright Street
Birmingham
B1 1BN
Tel: +44 (0)121-665 4231
Fax: +44 (0)121-665 4201
Email: Ruth.Loebl@...
Web: http://www.rnib.org.uk/technology/

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Senior ICT Development Officer

Royal National Institute of the Blind
58-72 John Bright Street
Birmingham
B1 1BN
Tel: +44 (0)121-665 4231
Fax: +44 (0)121-665 4201
Email: Ruth.Loebl@...
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It's been a long time since any traffic came through this list, for
which I apologise. I would like to revive the activity here, and I have
a few news items around the topic of software accessibility coming
shortly. I would welcome news, articles or discussions from other list
members, and hope to hear from you too.

All the best
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CALL FOR TENDERS
Study on the specific policy needs for ICT standardisation
<http://europa.eu.int/comm/enterprise/calls/calls.html#153420-2005>
(Deadline: 19/09/2005) The tasks are to examine the work carried out by
technical experts under the frame of the grant agreements (2001-2004)
and to evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of the grants awarded
to CEN/Cenelec for assessing the quality of harmonised standards in
support of European legislation. In particular, this includes the
evaluation of the procedure for the selection of experts, the
effectiveness of relevant working methods, the impact of their work with
regard to adopted harmonised standards, cost/benefit of the grants and
the potential for improvements and alternatives on the approach by
CEN/Cenelec.

http://europa.eu.int/comm/enterprise/calls/calls.html#153420-2005

This draft mandate was drawn up by an EU DG (forgive me if I don't quote
chapter and verse) based on the discussions at the meeting in Brussels
in October 2005, attended by some on this list. The attached document
describes a two-phase approach to establishing European-wide
accessibility standards, and making a free 'toolkit' widely available to
assist in the application of standards within procurement.

In the UK, the representative is based at the DTI. Other representatives
from the EU member countries are named in the second attachment. If you
agree with the content of the mandate, you might wish to lobby your
country representative to support the adoption of the mandate in the
vote, deadline 31 August.

Best wishes
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Senior ICT Development Officer

Royal National Institute of the Blind
58-72 John Bright Street
Birmingham
B1 1BN
Tel: +44 (0)121-665 4231
Fax: +44 (0)121-665 4201
Email: Ruth.Loebl@...
Web: http://www.rnib.org.uk/technology/

Come to Techshare 2005 - RNIB's international conference for
professionals who are interested in technology and the role it plays in
learning, work and life for people with sight problems. Taking place on
17-18 November in Birmingham, UK, visit http://www.rnib.org.uk/techshare
for more information on key speakers, presentations and how to book.

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From: Chiara Giovannini [mailto:c.giovannini@...]
Sent: 01 August 2005 08:51
Subject: Request for lobbying the national member of the 98/34 Committee
(ANEC 0134-05)

To the members of the ANEC DfA, ICT, Coordination Group and General
Assembly

Request for lobbying the national member of the 98/34 Committee

Dear All,

The 98/34 Committee will vote by correspondence with deadline 31 August
2005 an issue which is of major importance to ANEC:

* Draft Draft standardisation mandate to CEN, CENELEC and ETSI in
support of European accessibility requirements for public procurement of
products and services in the ICT domain

AIM OF THE MANDATE

* to provide a set of accessibility requirements for public
procurement of ICT products and services in Europe aimed at enhancing
ICT accessibility for people with disabilities and older persons.

* to create a mechanism through which the public procurers have
access to a freely-available electronic toolkit, enabling them to make
use of these harmonised requirements in public procurement.

We would appreciate if you could contact the representative of your
country on the 98/34 Committee to lobby in favor of the mandate.

WHY DO WE SUPPORT IT

* it is a basic consumer right to have access to products and
services. Discrimination exists if older people and people with
disabilities cannot use many of today's mainstream products and services

* Standards need to be developed to realise the full potential of
the legislative instruments which encourage a Design for All approach

* Public procurement is beneficial for consumers as it will
increase the market demand of accessible mainstream ICT products &
services (this is already happening in the United States)

Please find attached the draft programming mandate for your information
as well as the list with the contact details of 98/34 Committee
representatives contact points for each Member State. Should you need
any further information, please do not hesitate to contact me.

It would be helpful to receive feedback from you in case you were able
to talk to the respective 98/34 Committee representative.

Kind regards

Chiara GIOVANNINI
Programme Manager

ANEC - European Association for the Co-ordination of
Consumer Representation in Standardisation
Av. Tervueren 32 box 27 - B-1040 Brussels

Tel. +32 2 743 24 70 - E-Mail: anec@...
Fax +32 2 706 54 30 -

Direct E-mail: c.giovannini@...
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Dear all

OGC (the Office for Government Commerce) is the UK department
responsible for taking the recent European Procurement Directives and
incorporating them into UK law and practice. The Directives are not
mentioned in this consultation, and work appears to have started on
describing social issues in procurement before the Directives were
imposed. I admit that I haven't yet read this consultation, but I will
be looking for anything to do with accessibility in procurement,
although the concept of accessibility as a social issue is arguable.

Those of you in the UK public sector may feel moved to respond - the
closing date is 24 June.
Best wishes
Ruth

-----Original Message-----
From: ServiceDesk [mailto:ServiceDesk@...]
Sent: 06 June 2005 11:27
Subject: OGC/Sustainable Procurement Group note: Social Issues in
Purchasing - final consultation (eo)

Dear All,
Following the consultation that took place earlier this year on the
note,
Social Issues in Purchasing, I attach below the final draft for comment.
The
decision to undertake a final round of consultation was prompted by the
number and complexity of issues covered within the guidance, and also by
the
extensive response that we received.

The Social Note has been revised in view of comments from both public
sector
and private bodies, and all amendments have been made in line with the
legal
and policy framework that governs public sector procurement. Further
comments are now welcomed in line with the purpose and scope of the
original
recommendation prompting this guidance (please see below).

It has not been possible to include every social issue in detail in this
note. The guidance is not meant to be an exhaustive list of social
issues.
It is intended as a general guide as to what can be considered in public
procurement at the different stages of the procurement process.

When submitting comments, we would ask that recipients bear in mind that
while the intention is to show how social issues can be incorporated in
a
positive way, OGC cannot mandate what issues departments include in
their
procurements.

As previously, we would particularly welcome comments on the following:
* Effective coverage of social issues.
* Sufficient clarity and volume in the use of examples.
* Sufficient links to other related guidance.
* Accuracy of wording on social issues.

We would be grateful for all comments by Friday 24th June 2005. These
should
be forwarded to me electronically at kate.nutt@....

  <<Social Note - draft 6.0.doc>>

Background to the Social Note

The Sustainable Procurement group was established in November 2001 by
the
Secretary of State for the Environment, the Chief Secretary to the
Treasury
and the Deputy Prime Minister. Its remit was to consider how Government
could carry out the procurement of goods and services in a more
sustainable
manner within the framework that governs public sector purchasing. It
was
made up of representatives from government only.

One of the recommendations of the group was to produce guidance to
demonstrate how environmental issues might be included in public
purchasing.
This was duly produced by Defra and OGC and published in 2003. The group
also recommended the publication of a note looking at the scope to
consider
social issues in purchasing, and this is the guidance that was forwarded
for
consultation at the beginning of 2005. More information on the
recommendations can be found at:
http://www.sustainable-development.gov.uk/documents/publications/report0
3.pd
f.

If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Many thanks and kind regards

Kate Nutt
______________________________
Kate Nutt
Procurement Policy Adviser
Office of Government Commerce
Trevelyan House
26-30 Great Peter Street
London
SW1P 2BY
020 7271 2771

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This is an excerpt from the EDF (European Disability Forum) newsletter
about public procurement developments in Norway.

********************
NORWAY - New proposal for Norwegian legislation on public procurement:
demanding universal design!
On 12 April, the Norwegian Ministry of Modernisation proposed amendments
to the current national legislation for public procurement. According to
the draft legislation, public authorities on local, regional and
national levels are obliged to include universal design as one of the
criteria when planning public procurement of goods and services.

Today's legislation is regarded as complicated and the proposed
amendments are to simplify the rules. The threshold for using public
procurement is raised from EUR 25 000 to EUR 62 500. Electronic
procurements are also included on an equal level with other types of
public procurement in the new legislation in order to strengthen
eCommerce.

However, one of the main innovations is that both in the legislation
itself and in the technical annexes explicit reference is given to
universal design, or Design-for-All. This is to use the legislation as a
tool to achieve accessibility for disabled people in society.

In its action plan for increased accessibility for disabled people the
Government has decided that the principle of universal design is to be
made visible in national legislation on public procurement. This is why
the principle is to be included both in the legislation and in the
annexes on public procurement, implying that all public authorities
responsible for public procurement are to consider universal design as
part of their planning processes.

The Delta Centre, which is the National Resource Centre for
Participation and Accessibility in Norway, is leading a project to
produce a guideline on universal design in public procurement, and how
both EU and Norwegian legislation can be use as a tool to achieve the
objective of accessibility for all. The guideline will be a toolkit for
public authorities as well as others on all administrative levels. The
project involves both public authorities and organisations of disabled
people in Norway.

For more information on this, please contact the Delta Centre through
adviser, Mr. Rudolph Brynn, E-mail rbr@..., Tel. +47 24 16 35 39.

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Workshop on Designing Accessible Website - June 16, 2005 at Bangalore
_____________________________________________________________________

People with disabilities comprise of approximately 600 million or 10%
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Don't IGNORE this market.........

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used by all. Accessibility will enhance your products by making it
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In countries like UK and USA, there are laws that protect the disabled
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At Net Systems Informatics, we believe that for companies to compete
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Accessibility is about designing solutions keeping in mind people with
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This is a notice of a seminar taking place in London next week, aimed at
companies hoping to win business from UK Government.
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How To Win More E-Government Business
- An E-Government Bulletin supplier seminar
- 16 March 2005, RICS, Westminster
http://www.electronic-government.com/supplier/march.htm

Our one-day seminar will teach you lessons learned from
successful tendering, from the people who know, including tips
on useful tools and techniques. Market intelligence; tender lists;
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Director, Epic Group.

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For those Europeans on this list, you may wish to contribute to this EU
consultation.
Best wishes and Happy New Year
Ruth
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Dear Colleague,

As you might be aware of, Commissioner Viviane Reding, in charge of portfolio
"Information Society and Media", announced in her opening speech to the European
Parliament at the Hearing Session on the 29th September 2004, that the European
Commmission will publish a "Communication on eAccessibility" in the first half
of 2005.

As part of the procedure leading to the Communication, a PUBLIC WEB CONSULTATION
on the issue was initiated Monday 10th January, individual and institutional
contributions being sought until the 12th February 2005.

In view of your interest and work in the field, you are cordially invited to
express your views.

We attach the Press Release in English, French and German.

The on-line questionnaire can be accessed at:

     http://europa.eu.int/yourvoice/forms/dispatch?form=369

Additional information available at the Information Society Thematic Portal:

   
http://europa.eu.int/information_society/policy/accessibility/com_ea_2005/index_\
en.htm

We encourage you to redistribute this message among your own professional
contacts who may have an interest in this domain.

We thank you in advance for your cooperation !

Best regards,

Per Blixt
Head of Unit

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This is the latest consultation, with a very short timescale for responses - 21
January. I hope those with an interest in accessibility standards in public
procurement have time to respond in some way.

Festive greetings
Ruth

-----Original Message-----
From: Nutt, Kate [mailto:Kate.Nutt@...]
Sent: 21 December 2004 09:39
Subject: OGC/Sustainable Procurement Group Joint Note
on Social Issues in Purchasing


Dear All

As you may be aware, the Office of Government Commerce, in conjunction with
the Sustainable Procurement Group, has been working to produce a guidance
note detailing the scope to incorporate social issues into public sector
procurement.

I attach a draft of this note and would welcome your views. I would ask,
however, that you take the following points into consideration:

* The guidance is intended for use by public sector purchasers. Public
sector procurement must operate within a legal and policy framework that
lays down detailed rules about the ways in which issues of sustainability
can be incorporated into government purchasing. The structure and content of
the note must necessarily reflect these rules, and as such there is not
scope to make substantial changes to the main body of the text.

* It would not be possible to include every social issue in detail in
the note and it is not therefore meant to act as an exhaustive list of
social issues. It is intended more as a general guide for government
procurers. It is also worth remembering that in seeking to aid one social
issue, government departments must ensure they are not working to the
detriment of another. It is therefore up to individual government
departments to decide whether a particular social issue is relevant to a
procurement, and we have therefore tried to include the main points that
relate to each of the issues covered in the note in Annex A.

* We would particularly be grateful for comments on the following:
	  - Effective coverage of social issues.
	  - Sufficient clarity and volume in the use of examples.
	  - Sufficient links to other related guidance.
	  - Accuracy of wording on social issues.

* We be grateful for comment by the 21st January 2005. Feedback on the
note should be returned to me at kate.nutt@....

  <<Social Note - draft 4.1.doc>>

Please do not hesitate to contact me should you have any queries regarding
this,

Many thanks and kind regards

Kate Nutt
______________________________
Kate Nutt
Procurement Policy Adviser
Office of Government Commerce
Trevelyan House
26-30 Great Peter Street
London
SW1P 2BY
020 7271 2771

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Hi Ricky
Unfortunately your query doesn't fit the remit of this list, but I will reply
separately to you to suggest more appropriate lists, where such technical
queries may get useful responses.
Best wishes
Ruth

-----Original Message-----
From: Ricky Lomey [mailto:rickyl@...]
Sent: 21 November 2004 20:20
To: undisclosed-recipients
Subject: [IT-include] ADAPTING NORTON ANTIVIRUS PRODUCTS WITH
WINDOW-EYES 4.5 PLEASE



Hello

I hope you can get somebody to reply to me with info as this could really
help me. I have extreme difficulty using Norton Antivirus with Window-Eyes
4.5, including Symantec Security and Symantec Antivirus Client. I ask GW
Micro who said they don't have it at their office. I'll try asking the list
they have but seem to remember asking before with no reply. I received one
response from a lady on the blindtech list who said it had to be changed but
did not say how. The dealer here said their previous technician created new
windows and reclassed windows for me but he has now left and the rest don't
know. I need to know how to do this to tell a sighted person what to do when
helping me with this. I think it involves section 8.16 of the Window-Eyes
4.5 manual but does not specify Norton and I need to tab through options,
say if there is a virus I can just tab to the option I want to use as
I have difficulty clicking. Please help just in case the GW-info list
doesn't.



Ricky Lomey





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Hello

I hope you can get somebody to reply to me with info as this could really
help me. I have extreme difficulty using Norton Antivirus with Window-Eyes
4.5, including Symantec Security and Symantec Antivirus Client. I ask GW
Micro who said they don't have it at their office. I'll try asking the list
they have but seem to remember asking before with no reply. I received one
response from a lady on the blindtech list who said it had to be changed but
did not say how. The dealer here said their previous technician created new
windows and reclassed windows for me but he has now left and the rest don't
know. I need to know how to do this to tell a sighted person what to do when
helping me with this. I think it involves section 8.16 of the Window-Eyes
4.5 manual but does not specify Norton and I need to tab through options,
say if there is a virus I can just tab to the option I want to use as
I have difficulty clicking. Please help just in case the GW-info list
doesn't.



Ricky Lomey

I'll be there too, for all but the last half day. Look forward to seeing
some of you.

Mark

Dr. Mark Magennis
Centre for Inclusive Technology
National Council for the Blind of Ireland
Whitworth Road, Dublin 9, Republic of Ireland

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-----Original Message-----
From: Petre, Leen [mailto:leen.petre@...]
Sent: 11 October 2004 09:24
To: IT-include@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [IT-include] Procurement workshop in Brussels, 19-21
October


Dear Ruth and others,

I will participate in this conference, arriving evening 18 Oct, leaving
mid-day 21 October. Look forward to meeting some of you there

Leen

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-----Original Message-----
From: Loebl, Ruth [mailto:ruth.loebl@...]
Sent: 07 October 2004 10:30
To: IT-include (E-mail)
Subject: [IT-include] Procurement workshop in Brussels, 19-21 October


International Workshop on Accessibility Requirements for Public
Procurement in the ICT domain
Brussels 19-21 October 2004

I believe that there are still a very few places available for this
event. A number of members of this group will be speaking, and I hope
that others will be attending. As I will be there, I would very much
like to meet as many of you as possible - perhaps you would send a
message indicating if you will be there, and which day(s)?

The agenda is now online, at
http://europa.eu.int/information_society/topics/citizens/accessibility/r
egulation/pubproc_ws_2004/index_en.htm
This may break over more than one line - you'll have to paste the
address together for your browser.

Best wishes
---
Ruth Loebl
Senior UK ICT Development Officer

RNIB Technology in Learning and Employment
58-72 John Bright Street
Birmingham
B1 1BN
Tel: +44 (0)121-665 4231
Fax: +44 (0)121-665 4201
Email: Ruth.Loebl@...
Web: http://www.rnib.org.uk/technology/

Work Matters to blind and partially sighted people. The RNIB Work
Matters campaign is urging government, service providers and employers
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support this campaign, visit our website and sign our charter on
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This is just a message to prompt those who may be intending to respond to this
consultation that the closing date is in just under two weeks time.
Best wishes
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-----Original Message-----
From: ruth.loebl@... [mailto:ruth.loebl@...]
Sent: 31 August 2004 14:27
To: IT-include@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [IT-include] Another UK consultation: public sector duty


I hope some of you managed to respond to the previous OGC consultation on
public procurement. This time the consultation document is from the Dept for
Work and Pensions, and the Disability Rights Commission is "urging
organisations and individuals to have their say on the extension of the
Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) to the functions of public authorities
and the introduction of a duty on public authorities, including local
councils, schools and colleges, to promote equality for disabled people."

One aspect of this duty would be to demonstrate good practice in accessible
public procurement. Links to various formats of the consultation document
can be found at http://www.dwp.gov.uk/publications/dwp/2004/equality/
A range of accessible versions are available by calling: 020 8867 3201 or
text phone: 020 8867 3217. I have attached a PDF version which I shall also
put in the IT-include "Files" area on the Yahoo website for those who don't
get mail attachments.

The consultation ends on 21 October 2004.

Best wishes
---
Ruth Loebl
Senior UK ICT Development Officer

RNIB Technology in Learning and Employment
58-72 John Bright Street
Birmingham
B1 1BN
Tel: +44 (0)121-665 4231
Fax: +44 (0)121-665 4201
Email: Ruth.Loebl@...
Web: http://www.rnib.org.uk/technology/

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Regretfully, we cannot send any representative from the Foundation for
Information Technology Accessibility (MALTA) to this event.
Still, I wish to express our support for this and similar events.  Maltese
public entities and business organisations could definitely benefit from the
information and knowledge generated by such an event.

If anyone reading this, wishes to collaborate on a related project, please do
contact us, we will be glad to discuss the details and work out a way forward.
More information about FITA can be found on our web site at www.knpd.
org/mittsfita

Regards,

Stanley M Debono
Executive Coordinator


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>      1. Procurement workshop in Brussels, 19-21 October
>           From: "Loebl, Ruth" <ruth.loebl@...>
>
>
>________________________________________________________________________
>________________________________________________________________________
>
>Message: 1
>   Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 10:29:41 +0100
>   From: "Loebl, Ruth" <ruth.loebl@...>
>Subject: Procurement workshop in Brussels, 19-21 October
>
>International Workshop on Accessibility Requirements for Public Procurement in
the ICT domain
>Brussels 19-21 October 2004
>
>I believe that there are still a very few places available for this event. A
number of members of this group will be speaking, and I hope that others will
be attending. As I will be there, I would very much like to meet as many of you
as possible - perhaps you would send a message indicating if you will be there,
and which day(s)?
>
>The agenda is now online, at
>http://europa.eu.
int/information_society/topics/citizens/accessibility/regulation/pubproc_ws_2004
/index_en.htm
>This may break over more than one line - you'll have to paste the address
together for your browser.
>
>Best wishes
>---
>Ruth Loebl
>Senior UK ICT Development Officer
>
>RNIB Technology in Learning and Employment
>58-72 John Bright Street
>Birmingham
>B1 1BN
>Tel: +44 (0)121-665 4231
>Fax: +44 (0)121-665 4201
>Email: Ruth.Loebl@...
>Web: http://www.rnib.org.uk/technology/
>
>Work Matters to blind and partially sighted people. The RNIB Work Matters
campaign is urging government, service providers and employers to recognise and
harness the abilities of people with sight loss. To support this campaign,
visit our website and sign our charter on www.rnib.org.uk/workmatters.
>
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>those of RNIB.
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International Workshop on Accessibility Requirements for Public Procurement in
the ICT domain
Brussels 19-21 October 2004

I believe that there are still a very few places available for this event. A
number of members of this group will be speaking, and I hope that others will be
attending. As I will be there, I would very much like to meet as many of you as
possible - perhaps you would send a message indicating if you will be there, and
which day(s)?

The agenda is now online, at
http://europa.eu.int/information_society/topics/citizens/accessibility/regulatio\
n/pubproc_ws_2004/index_en.htm
This may break over more than one line - you'll have to paste the address
together for your browser.

Best wishes
---
Ruth Loebl
Senior UK ICT Development Officer

RNIB Technology in Learning and Employment
58-72 John Bright Street
Birmingham
B1 1BN
Tel: +44 (0)121-665 4231
Fax: +44 (0)121-665 4201
Email: Ruth.Loebl@...
Web: http://www.rnib.org.uk/technology/

Work Matters to blind and partially sighted people. The RNIB Work Matters
campaign is urging government, service providers and employers to recognise and
harness the abilities of people with sight loss. To support this campaign, visit
our website and sign our charter on www.rnib.org.uk/workmatters.

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I hope some of you managed to respond to the previous OGC consultation on
public procurement. This time the consultation document is from the Dept for
Work and Pensions, and the Disability Rights Commission is "urging
organisations and individuals to have their say on the extension of the
Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) to the functions of public authorities
and the introduction of a duty on public authorities, including local
councils, schools and colleges, to promote equality for disabled people."

One aspect of this duty would be to demonstrate good practice in accessible
public procurement. Links to various formats of the consultation document
can be found at http://www.dwp.gov.uk/publications/dwp/2004/equality/
A range of accessible versions are available by calling: 020 8867 3201 or
text phone: 020 8867 3217. I have attached a PDF version which I shall also
put in the IT-include "Files" area on the Yahoo websit for those who don't
get mail attachments.

The consultation ends on 21 October 2004.

Best wishes
---
Ruth Loebl
Senior UK ICT Development Officer

RNIB Technology in Learning and Employment
58-72 John Bright Street
Birmingham
B1 1BN
Tel: +44 (0)121-665 4231
Fax: +44 (0)121-665 4201
Email: Ruth.Loebl@...
Web: http://www.rnib.org.uk/technology/

Work Matters to blind and partially sighted people. The RNIB Work Matters
campaign is urging government, service providers and employers to recognise
and harness the abilities of people with sight loss. To support this
campaign, visit our website and sign our charter on
www.rnib.org.uk/workmatters.

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There is only one week left to submit a proposal for a presentation at
RNIB's Techshare conference, which takes place in Birmingham UK on 18-19
November 2004. The Call for Papers closes on 2 August, and we are hoping
that we will receive papers about aspects of ICT accessibility in
procurement. I would like to encourage to you to submit a paper; speakers
receive a significant discount on their conference attendance fee.

The call for papers document is attached in Word format; more information
can be found at
www.rnib.org.uk/techshare

---
Ruth Loebl
Senior UK ICT Development Officer

RNIB Technology in Learning and Employment
58-72 John Bright Street
Birmingham
B1 1BN
Tel: +44 (0)121-665 4231
Fax: +44 (0)121-665 4201
Email: Ruth.Loebl@...
Web: http://www.rnib.org.uk/technology/

Work Matters to blind and partially sighted people. The RNIB Work Matters
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