Future generations of visually impaired people might judge that the Internet was perhaps the most significant development since the intervention of braille because it gave them access to the same wealth of information as sighted people and thus turned out to be a powerful tool of vocational rehabilitation and social integration. To promote the use of the internet among the visually impaired, but also to provide a model of Web accessibility,
EBU member organisations, is presently partner in a EU project entitled Websites and Cyber Kiosques: network for the integration of blind and partially sighted people.“ The project will run for twelve months and subdivides into two phases:
Phase One is about designing national web pages where the EBU project partners present their various activities and services which they maintain at local, regional and national levels. The websites currently under development will also include a European or international page which will contain some selected information on model activities which project partners feel are of transnational relevance. In addition to this, users will find on the national pages information on EU policies and programmes or links to EU webpages.
Phase Two will be about creating a cyber kiosque, i.e. a training environment where blind and partially sighted internet users will find all the equipment, tools and educational ressources needed to learn how to navigate through the Net.
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EU-Project partners:
Associação dos Cegos e Amblíopes de Portugal (ACAPO)
Unione Italiana Ciechi (UICIECHI)
Dansk Blindesamfund (DAB)
Fédération des Aveugles de France (FAF)&nb