Government policies on disability – and criticism of them – rest in parton an understanding of the circumstances of disabled people informedby cross-sectional survey data, dividing the population into “thedisabled” and “the non-disabled”. While conceptual debates about thenature of...

Vor dem Hintergrund des Europäischen Jahres derMenschen mit Behinderungen 2003 hatte das Bundesministeriumfür Wirtschaft und Technologie eineGrundlagenuntersuchung zu den „ÖkonomischenImpulsen eines barrierefreien Tourismus für alle“veranlasst 1. Ziel der Studie war es, das...

This paper presents some European initiatives developed within the Socrates Programme in order to support people with disabilities to use the new technologies. The disadvantages of the existing software designed for people with visual deficiencies together with some criteria that have to be...